From the moment of its first publication in 1848, John Stuart Mill's "Principles" established itself as a classic which, viewed simply as an economics textbook, was to enjoy a longer active life than any comparable work, either before or since. Mill's many-sided brilliance and his concern for fundamental problems have, in the end, secured him against the onslaughts of lesser minds at the end of the last century: his questions have proved more durable than their answers. This volume contains the two concluding books of Mill's extensive work. To these are added important passages from the second book, on socialism and the distribution of property. The introduction outlines the structure of Mill's thought, and in doing so highlights the appeal of his sympathy for social change, his rejection of crude Malthusianism and his distaste for what is now called "growthmanship".

Principles of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) (Books 4 and 5)

Henry, Sidgwick

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Principles of Political Economy

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Readings in Ethical Theory

JOHN R. SEARLE

Bertrand, Russell

James Thomson

G. E. Moore

W. K. Frankena

Judith Thomson

H. A. Prichard et al

Appleton, Century, Crofts

This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.
From the forward by John Rawls:
In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) has an important place. His fundamental work, The Methods of Ethics (first edition 1874, seventh and last edition 1907, here reprinted), is the clearest and most accessible formulation of what we may call 'the classical utilitarian doctorine.' This classical doctrine holds that the ultimate moral end of social and individual action is the greatest net sum of the happiness of all sentient beings. Happinesss is specified (as positive or negative) by the net balance of pleasure over pain, or, as Sidgwick preferred to say, as the net balance of agreeable over disagreeable consciousness. . . .

The Methods of Ethics, 7th Edition (Hackett Classics)

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Hackett Publishing Company

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The Methods Of Ethics

History

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A Supplement to the Second Edition of the Methods of Ethics

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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