| Description |
vii, 255 ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Philosophical topics
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Philosophical topics (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 251-255. |
| Contents |
Of the principle of utility / Jeremy Bentham -- Of what sort of proof the principle of utility is susceptible / John Stuart Mill -- Criticism of Mill's "proof" / G.E. Moore -- Utilitarianism and commonsense morality / Henry Sidgwick -- Universalizability and utilitarianism / R.M. Hare -- Happiness as pleasure and no pain / Jeremy Bentham -- Happiness as satisfaction of desires / A.J. Ayer -- Objections to desire-satisfaction views of happiness / Richard Brandt -- The experience machine / Robert Nozick -- Higher and lower pleasures / John Stuart Mill -- A crisis in my mental history / John Stuart Mill -- A sophisticated version of the desire account / James Griffin -- Plural utility / Amartya Sen -- Liberty and individuality / John Stuart Mill -- The "Separateness of Persons" objection / John Rawls -- Personal identity and the separateness of Persons / Derek Parfit -- The "Double Counting" objection / Ronald Dworkin -- Comments on the "Doubling Counting" objection / H.L.A. Hart -- Rights consequentialism / Amartya Sen -- The survival lottery / John Harris -- Utilitarianism and new generations / Jan Narveson -- Overpopulation and the quality of life / Derek Parfit -- "The mainspring of morality has been taken away" / Stuart Hampshire -- Utilitarianism and integrity / Bernard Williams -- Integrity and squeamishness / J.J.C. Smart -- Some paradoxes of deterrence / Gregory S. Kavka -- Act-utilitarianism and rule-utillitarianism / J.J.C. Smart -- Esoteric morality / Henry Sidgwick -- Is act-utillitarianism self-defeating? / D.H. Hodgson -- Is act-utilitarianism self-defeating? / Peter Singer -- Utilitarianism and co-operation / Donald H. Regan -- Agent-centered prerogatives / Samuel Scheffler -- Levels of moral thinking / R.M. Hare -- Motive utilitarianism / Robert Merrihew Adams. |
| Subject |
Utilitarianism.
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Utilitarianism. |
| Added Author |
Glover, Jonathan.
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| ISBN |
0023441348 |
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