ISBN : 9780199577446
These ten new essays by leading contemporary philosophers constitute the first collective study of a group of British moral philosophers active between the 1870s and 1950s, including Henry Sidgwick, Hastings Rashdall, G.E. Moore, H.A. Prichard, W.D. Ross, and A.C. Ewing. The essays help recover the history of this neglected period: they treat it as a unity, draw out the connections between the thinkers, engage philosophically with their ideas, and in so doing show how much they can contribute to present-day philosophical debates
Introduction
1. Common Themes from Sidgwick to Ewing
2. Pleasure and Hedonism in Sidgwick
3. Ideal Utilitarianism: Rashdall and Moore
4. McTaggart on Love
5. Has Anyone Ever Been a Non-Intuitionist?
6. Mistakes about Good: Prichard, Carritt, and Aristotle
7. The Birth of Deontology
8. Eliminativism about Derivative Prima Facie Duties
9. Ross on Retributivism
10. A.C. Ewing's First and Second Thoughts about Metaethics
Bibliography
Index