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5 de oct. de 2004 · Sidgwick was born on May 31, 1838, in the small Yorkshire town of Skipton. He was the second surviving son of Mary Crofts and the Reverend William Sidgwick, the headmaster of the grammar school in Skipton, who died when Henry was only three. Henry's older brother William went on to become an Oxford don, as did his younger brother Arthur.
Henry Sidgwick was born 31 May 1838, at Skipton in Yorkshire, the third son and fourth child of William Sidgwick and Mary Crofts Sidgwick, who had married in 1833. His father, an ordained clergyman and headmaster of a school, died in 1841. His mother then settled near Bristol with her four surviving children.
This chapter discusses the life and ethical philosophy of Henry Sidgwick. His masterpiece, The Methods of Ethics, first published in 1874, marks the culmination of the classical and nontheological utilitarian tradition, which took ‘the greatest happiness’ as the fundamental normative demand. Sidgwick was also a reformer who always advocated ...
The “Sidgwick Group”, as it was called—that is, Henry and Eleanor Sidgwick, Arthur and Gerald Balfour, F. W. H. Myers, Lord Rayleigh, Edmund Gurney, Frank Podmore, and a few others—worked in close collaboration, and ended up establishing to their satisfaction the reality of telepathic communication among the living, the findings being presented in the series of massive (and quite ...
17 de may. de 2017 · Henry Sidgwick is today remembered as a later nineteenth-century moral philosopher who struggled with his Christian faith, having difficulty reconciling this with an emergent modern and secular philosophy. In this paper, it is suggested that the only accurate part of this statement relates to the century in which Henry Sidgwick lived.
Henry Sidgwick was appointed Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Sciences at Cambridge in 1883. When Alfred Marshall was appointed as Professor of Political Economy in 1885 (succeeding Fawcett ), Sidgwick initially tried to exercise his seniority on the Moral Sciences board to interfere in Marshall's economics curriculum, something Marshall vigorously resisted.
7 de jun. de 2004 · Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe. : Bart Schultz. Cambridge University Press, Jun 7, 2004 - Philosophy - 858 pages. Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today.
