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| Author | : Lanny O. Ebenstein |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2018-04-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351112457 |
First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. It goes on to discuss the utilitarian theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill in detail, commenting on the latter’s view of the Christianity of his day and his optimal socialist society. The book argues that the key theory of utility is fundamentally concerned with happiness, stating that happiness has largely been left out of discussions of utility. It also goes on to argue that utility can be used as a moral theory, ultimately posing the question, what is happiness?
| Author | : Lanny O. Ebenstein |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2020-03-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780815362364 |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Happiness in the Bible -- II. The Role of Happiness in Plato and Aristotle -- III. Epicurus -- IV. Bentham's Theory of Utility -- V. Mill's Theory of Utility -- VI. John Rawls' Non-Utilitarian Theory -- VII. A New Theory of Utility -- Appendices: -- A. Utility and Justice -- B. Henry Sidgwick's Utilitarian Contributions -- C. Comments on Various Utilitarian Writers -- D. Glimpses of a Utilitarian Future -- E. Free Will and Determinism -- F. Teleologism-Deontologism, Consequentialism-Non-Consequentialism -- G. Why Happiness -- Bibliography -- Supplementary Materials: -- Mill's Theory of Utility -- Mill's "Quality -- Sidgwick's Ethics
| Author | : Noel Thompson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2014-10-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317588541 |
The Market and Its Critics, first published in 1988, considers the reaction of socialist writers to the growth of the market economy in nineteenth century Britain, and examines in detail the diverse elements of the critique which they formulated. Dr Thompson looks at the theoretic and thematic continuities and discontinuities over the century, structuring his study around the idea of a changing socialist response to the market economy. Much of the literature in question is comprehensive, perceptive and acute. However, the writers invariably discounted the possibility of the market playing a role in a future socialist or communist commonwealth. The solutions they posited to the problem were inapplicable to the increasingly industrial economy of the time. It was this that left their writing vulnerable to attack, and which had profound consequences both for the fate of the socialist political economy in nineteenth century Britain and its subsequent evolution in the twentieth century.
| Author | : Walter Nash |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2018-12-17 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1315278316 |
First published in 1986, this book examines the changing patterns in English usage and style. It encourages a constructive attitude to language, demonstrating the creative resources of grammar, discussing in detail the options of written style, and challenging the authoritarian spirit that inhibits usage. The central chapters are concerned with written usage, and pay close attention to questions of syntax and punctuation. The sense of writing, however, is always related to speech, and the value of usage as a social act is emphasised in the exploration of style as an individual function. Technical terms are explained and the text is illustrated with examples from literature and journalism.
| Author | : Edward Vernon Arnold |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2014-02-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317743210 |
Roman Stoicism, first published in 1911, offers an authoritative introduction to this fascinating chapter in the history of Western philosophy, which throughout the 20th century has been rediscovered and rehabilitated among philosophers, theologians and intellectual historians. Stoicism played a significant part in Roman history via the public figures who were its adherents (Seneca is perhaps the most famous); and, as it became more widely accepted, it assumed the features of a religion. The Stoic approach to physics, the universe, divine providence, ethics, law and humanity are all investigated, as is its diffuse impact upon literature. The origins of Christianity are also examined. Arnold offers a sympathetic reading of St. Paul in light of Stoicism, and regards the latter as the crucial bridge between Antiquity and Christendom: it allowed a swathe of Pagan intellectuals to join the Church and influenced the development of Christian doctrine, thus making an immense contribution to the bedrock of modern European civilisation.
| Author | : Derrick Leon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 2015-07-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317440471 |
This book, first published in 1949, is an important work in Victorian studies, and directs light on Ruskin’s personal tragedy, his public life, and on the character of his work. This book will be of interest to students of history and cultural studies.
| Author | : Raphael Samuel |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1315446189 |
First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners’ strike of 1984-5 was ‘Scargill’s Strike’. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above, was determined from below by multitudinous and often contradictory pressures — the lodge, the village and the home. The focus is essentially logical and gives particular attention to family economy, kin networks and intergenerational solidarity. At the same time it is concerned with the mentality of the strike — its ruling fears and passions. The first-hand testimonies that comprise the book attest to the attachment to ‘traditional ways’ as well as the potency of the influences corroding them.
| Author | : Max Beloff |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2009-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135228159 |
This re-issued work, first published in 1959, is a collection of essays by British historian Max Beloff, designed to help us to understand and interpret the political problems of the twentieth century. The essays are divided into three key areas: the challenges and limitations of interpretation from a historian's perspective, the appropriate scale for political activity and organisation in the modern world, and the emergence of the United States of America as the most powerful nation on the planet.
| Author | : Laura Dabundo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 900 |
| Release | : 2009-10-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1135232342 |
First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and scholars.
| Author | : Alan Ryan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2016-06-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134833938 |
First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill’s achievements, providing an introductory guide to his most important and best known writings including Autobiography, A System of Logic, Utilitarianism, Liberty, and The Subjugation of Women. In their treatment of his works, the author seeks to emphasise Mill’s approach to those issues — education, the conflict between social order and individual freedom, the unresolved state of the social sciences, rights and duties of citizens in a democratic state — which remain most alive to us today. At the same time Mill is seen as part of his own age, responding to the anxieties that beset his contemporaries. This book will be of interest to students of politics and philosophy.
