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Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics

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Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics

William Thomas Thornton

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Anti-utilitarianism, chapter one: Thornton opens fire on the reigning philosophy of his day. His essays defend old-fashioned ethics and common-sense metaphysics against Mill's followers, with applications to the live controversies of the 1870s. An economist moonlighting as a moralist, and enjoying the fight. Contrarian Victorian philosophy with its dukes up.

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30 chapters

  1. 1OLD-FASHIONED ETHICS
  2. 2AND
  3. 3COMMON-SENSE METAPHYSICS
  4. 4WITH SOME OF THEIR APPLICATIONS
  5. 5WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON
  6. 6AUTHOR OF A TREATISE 'ON LABOUR'
  7. 7PREFACE.
  8. 8CONTENTS.
  9. 9OLD-FASHIONED ETHICS AND COMMON-SENSE METAPHYSICS
  10. 10CHAPTER I.
  11. 11ANTI-UTILITARIANISM. I.
  12. 12II.
  13. 13CHAPTER II.
  14. 14HISTORY'S SCIENTIFIC PRETENSIONS.
  15. 15CHAPTER III.
  16. 16DAVID HUME AS A METAPHYSICIAN.
  17. 17CHAPTER IV.
  18. 18HUXLEYISM.

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