Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill - Brossura

Rosen, Frederick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415408466 ISBN 13: 9780415408462

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2006

Riassunto

This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians. The writings of Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham are also considered.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Frederick Rosen is Professor of the History of Political Thought at University College London. He has served as General Editor of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Director of the Jeremy Bentham Project, and Director of the Centre for Politics, Law and Society at UCL. Among his books are Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy(1983) and Bentham, Byron and Greece: Constitutionalism, Nationalism, and Early Liberal Political Thought (1992). He has co-edited several books, was the founding editor of Utilitas, and has contributed numerous articles to various learned journals.

Contenuti:

1. Introduction

Part I

2. Utility and Justice: Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition

3. Reading Hume Backwards: Utility as the Foundation of Morals

4. The Idea of Utility in Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments

5. Helvetius, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Bentham's Idea of Utility

6. The Idea of Utility in Smith's Wealth of Nations

7. Bentham and Smith on Liberty

8. William Paley as a Utilitarian

9. Liberty, Utility, and the Reform of the Criminal Law

10. J.S. Mill's Hedonism

11. J.S. Mill on Justice and Liberty

Part II

12. Punishment of the Innocent

13. Individual Sacrifice and the Greatest Happiness

14. The Tyranny of the Majority

15. Negative Liberty

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415408466
• ISBN 13: 9780415408462
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304