Sidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism

Sidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
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ISBN-10 : 023032178X
ISBN-13 : 9780230321786
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Download or read book Sidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism written by M. Nakano-Okuno and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics – The Methods of Ethics. With a rather shocking conclusion that 'none of us can match Sidgwick', Mariko Nakano-Okuno lucidly analyzes Henry Sidgwick's impacts on contemporary ethics.


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