Henry Sidgwick era un Filosofo utilitarista inglese dell'Ottocento, un grande riformatore in seno all'università di Cambridge dove fece i suoi studi ed insegnò durante tutta la sua carriera. Fu uno dei primi ad interessarsi alla psicologia particolarmente con la creazione del Society for Psychical Research che riuniva degli intellettuali che cominciavano a studiare i fenomeni del comportamento psicologico dell'uomo.

 

New Book:

Sidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism

by Mariko Nakano-Okuno

This is one of the rare academic studies on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics – The Methods of Ethics written by Henry Sidgwick. With a rather shocking conclusion that 'none of us can match Sidgwick', Mariko Nakano-Okuno elaborately and lucidly analyzes Henry Sidgwick's impacts on contemporary ethics, including critical reassessment of the utilitarian philosophy of R. M. Hare, J. C. Harsanyi and R.B. Brandt. 

Sidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism will be a must-read book for all professional philosophers as well as students concerned with Sidgwick's moral philosophy, utilitarian ethics, and the theoretical foundations of ethics in general. Its language is plain and reader-friendly, which enables philosophy beginners to understand the fundamental questions of ethics more easily and clearly than ever.

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