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Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world, through the Enlightenment and Victorian utilitarianism up to the lively debate of the present day.... Read more
Chapter I Introduction: The Character of the Theory; Chapter II Four Ancient Moralists; Chapter III Utilitarianism and Enlightenment; Chapter IV John Stuart Mill; Chapter V Some Later Developments; Chapter VI Happiness and Other Ends; Chapter VII Maximisation, Fairness and Respect for Persons; Chapter VIII Utilitarianism and Personality;
Biography
Geoffrey Scarre is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Durham. He is the author of Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill and the editor of Children, Parents and Politics.
'This is an excellent introduction to and survey of utilitarianism, and important current in contemporary ethical theory.' - Philosophia, The Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, 27, 3-4 Nov.1999
