Utilitarianism and Empire

Name: Utilitarianism and Empire
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ISBN: 9780739110874

ISBN-10: 073911087X

ISBN-13: 9780739110874

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bart Schultz, Georgios Varouxakis, David Goldberg, H. Jones, Javed Majeed

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The classical utilitarians worked at the height of the British Empire, yet their attitudes towards racial issues remains almost unexplored. This volume seeks to reveal what part ideas about race played in the ethical & political programmes of the utilitarian philosophers of the 19th century.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English




Introduction




Jeremy Bentham on slavery and the slave trade




Jeremy Bentham : legislator of the world?




James Mill's The history of British India : the question of utilitarianism and empire




Mill on happiness : the enduring value of a complex critique




Liberalism's limits : Carlyle and Mill on "the Negro question"




Empire, race, Euro-centrism : John Stuart Mill and his critics




Chairing the Jamaica committee : J. S. Mill and the limits of colonial authority




The early utilitarians, race, and empire : the state of the argument




Imagining Darwinism