Sidgwick, Henry(1838–1900)
Henry Sidgwick, the English philosopher and educator, was born in Yorkshire and attended Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a brilliant undergraduate career,...
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Sidgwick, Henry [addendum]
Henry Sidgwick is renowned for giving classical utilitarianism its most sophisticated dress and greatly advancing substantive ethical theory. Celebrated for his clarity and ...
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The English philosopher and moralist Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was the author of The Methods of Ethics, which has been described as the "best treatise on moral theory that has ever been written."Henr...
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Although mainly remembered as the author of what many critics consider the most important book on ethics written in nineteenth-century Britain, The Methods of Ethics (1874), Henry Sidgwick was a man o...
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