Methods of Sidgwick A Sidgwick Hypertext The title of this section is a rather obvious play on a Sidgwick title. I wasn't feeling very inspired when I named it . The Texts The Elements of Politics The Methods of Ethics Practical Ethics The Principles of Political Economy Commentaries, Essays, Lectures, and Notes Sidgwick's Critique of Nozick Essay by David Braybrooke. You did read that title ...

Henry Sidgwick, 1838-1900 Henry Sidgwick was born in the year after Queen Victoria took the throne, and died six months before she died. Perhaps it was a fateful coincidence. In many ways, Henry Sidgwick was the quintessential Victorian, the perfect 19th Century English academic. Educated at Rugby, Sidgwick entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1855. Graduating in Classics and Mathematics in ...

Sidgwick on Kant by Soshichi Uchii Sidgwick on Kant (1) On Kant's derivation of duties from the categorical imperative It is well known that Sidgwick's principle of justice owes at least a part of its content to Kant's categorical imperative. However, even where he acknowldges this, Sidgwick is quite critical to Kant's whole project of ethics based on the categorical imperative. For example, in ...

1838.5.31 Born at Skipton in Yorkshire. His father, William, was a headmaster of Skipton Grammer School and died in 1841, when Henry was three years old. 1852 (Age 14) Went to Rugby School. It is said that he was greatly influenced by his second cousin and then a master at Rugby, Edward White Benson (who afterwards became the husband of Henry's sister and also an archbishop of Canterbury), who ...

Who is Henry Sidgwick