Classical Utilitarianism and the Anxiety of Influence : A Philosophical Dialectic from Mill to Broad
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0197912591
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9780197912591
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Nov 13th, 2026
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336 Pages
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This volume reinterprets J. S. Mill and Henry Sidgwick's versions of utilitarianism, showing how they remained a source of tension in English moral philosophy long after their time. It explores how debates over Darwinian evolution and doubts about philosophical method kept classical utilitarianism alive as an 'anxiety'.
J. S. Mill and Henry Sidgwick''s versions of classical utilitarianism have had an enormous effect on the development of modern English-speaking ethical philosophy. This study traces the impact of their thinking at Oxford and Cambridge during the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century, when analytical philosophizing began to emerge. It shows how much idealists such as T. H. Green and F. H. Bradley, ideal utilitarians such as G. E. Moore and Hastings Rashdall, and later intuitionists like W. D. Ross, H. A. Prichard, A. C. Ewing, and C. D. Broad owed to them, despite what the received view has assumed. It also explores how their impact was entangled with evolutionary theorizing in the aftermath of Darwin.
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