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The Methods of Ethics

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Philosophy & Psychology

The Methods of Ethics

Henry Sidgwick

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Three methods claim to guide conduct: egoism, intuitionism, utilitarianism. Sidgwick spends the greatest ethical treatise of his century testing them against one another, with famous chapters on pleasure and desire, free will, and the dualism he could never resolve. Philosophy's gold standard of honesty and rigor. The masterpiece serious readers graduate to.

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52 chapters

  1. 1THE METHODS OF ETHICS
  2. 2PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  4. 4PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
  5. 5PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
  6. 6PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION
  7. 7PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION
  8. 8PREFATORY NOTE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION
  9. 9CONTENTS
  10. 10BOOK I
  11. 11CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
  12. 12CHAPTER II THE RELATION OF ETHICS TO POLITICS
  13. 13CHAPTER III ETHICAL JUDGMENTS
  14. 14CHAPTER IV PLEASURE AND DESIRE
  15. 15CHAPTER V FREE WILL
  16. 16CHAPTER VI ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND METHODS
  17. 17CHAPTER VII EGOISM AND SELF-LOVE
  18. 18CHAPTER VIII INTUITIONISM

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