British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing (The Oxford History of Philosophy),New

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing (The Oxford History of Philosophy),New

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Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the midtwentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The bestknown of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were nonnaturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subjectmatter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground.Hurka recovers the history of this underappreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many betterknown ones of both earlier and later times.

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