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Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism

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ISBN-10: 1107656710

ISBN-13: 9781107656710

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ben Eggleston, Dale Miller

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Utilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes and applications. First it traces the origins and development of utilitarianism via the work of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others. The volume then explores issues in the formulation of utilitarianism, including act versus rule utilitarianism, actual versus expected consequences, and objective versus subjective theories of well-being. Next, utilitarianism is positioned in relation to Kantianism and virtue ethics, and the possibility of…    
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Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Ben Eggleston is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He is co-editor (with Dale E. Miller and David Weinstein) of John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011).

Dale E. Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. He is author of J. S. Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought (2010), and co-editor of Morality, Rules, and Consequences (with Brad Hooker and Elinor Mason, 2000) and John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (with Ben Eggleston and David Weinstein, 2011).