British Ethical Theorists From Sidgwick To Ewing
by Thomas Hurka /
2014 / English / PDF
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Thomas Hurka examines a group of British moral philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school in the history of ethics. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. Hurka recovers the history of this largely neglected group by showing what its members thought, howthey influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributionscritically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.
