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A Short Biography of Henry Sidgwick

Author Name:

Henry Sidgwick

Born As:

Henry Sidgwick

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Born:

31 May 1838

Died:

28 Aug 1900




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Utilitarian Philosopher                          
Selectedition Works:

The Methods of Ethics London, 1874, 7th edition - 1907
"The Theory of Evolution in its application to Practice", in "Mind", Volume I, Number 1 January 1876
Principles of Political Economy London, 1883, 3rd edition - 1901
The Scope and Method of Economic Science 1885
The Elements of Politics London, 1891, 4th edition - 19- 19
Outlines of the History of Ethics 1886, 5th edition - 1902 (enlarged from his article ethics in the Encyclopædia Britannica)
"The Philosophy of Common Sense", in "Mind", New Series, Volume IV, Number 14, April 1895
"economic science and economics," Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, 1896, v 1, reprint edition in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, - 1987, Volume 2
Practical Ethics London, 1898, 2nd edition - 1909
Philosophy; its Scope and Relations London - 1902
Lectures on the Ethics of T H Green, Mr Herbert Spencer and J Martineau - 1902
The Development of European Polity - 1903
Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses - 1904
Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant - 1905.                                              
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One of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research
Member of the Metaphysical Society
Promoted the higher education of women.                                              
Utilitarianism, also: utilism, is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome.

Utilitarian on the lines of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham.