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OverviewHappiness and Utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it alongside earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Drawing on a range of philosophical and historical approaches to the study of the central idea of utilitarianism, the chapters provide a rich set of insights into a founding component of ethics and modern political and economic thought, as well as political and economic practice. In doing so, the chapters examine the multiple dimensions of utilitarianism and the contested interpretations of this standard for judgment in morality and public policy. The chapters are written in celebration of the career of Professor Fredrick Rosen. They follow his work by concentrating on Bentham and the two Mills, and by the subtleties and sophistication of their understanding of one of the most alluring but elusive ideas of modern times. The volume will be of interest not only to admirers of Rosen but to academics and postgraduate students in disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, the history of political thought, legal theory and legal history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Georgios Varouxakis , Mark PhilpPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781787350496ISBN 10: 1787350495 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 29 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Happiness, Utility and the Republic of Letters 1 Mark Philp and Georgios Varouxakis 2. Happiness and Interests in Politics: A Late-Enlightenment Debate 20 Emmanuelle de Champs 3. Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812 40 Philip Schofield 4. Scepticism and Epicureanism: From David Hume to J. S. Mill 59 James Moore 5. Bentham on ‘Hume’s Virtues’ 81 José L. Tasset 6. Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on Pleasure and Virtue 98 Roger Crisp 7. ‘The First Article to Look to is Power’: Bentham, Happiness and the Capability Approach 118 Michael Quinn, Bentham Project UCL 8. Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms 143 Manuel Escamilla-Castillo 9. James Mill on Happiness 161 Antis Loizides 10. Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and Higher Pleasures 184 Jonathan Riley 11. Individualist and Totalizing Ethical Thinking in Mill’s Utilitarianism 207 John Charvet 12. Mill and Democracy: Taking William Buckley Seriously 225 Alan Ryan 13. John Stuart Mill and the Jewish Question: Broadening the Utilitarian Maximand 246 Samuel Hollander 14. The Failure of Planned Happiness: The Rise and Fall of British Home Colonies 269 Barbara Arneil 15. Making Better Sense of Ideal Utilitarianism 289 David Weinstein Index 313ReviewsThe theoretical and historical understanding of utilitarianism has been further deepened. * Studies in British Philosophy * """The theoretical and historical understanding of utilitarianism has been further deepened."" * Studies in British Philosophy *" Author InformationGeorgios Varouxakis is Professor in History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London, and Co-director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought. His books include Liberty Abroad: J.S. Mill on International Relations (Cambridge, 2013). Mark Philp is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick, and an Emeritus Fellow or Oriel College, Oxford. He has worked extensively in the history of political thought and on political corruption and realist political theory. His books include Political Conduct (Harvard, 2007) and Reforming Political Ideas in Britain (Cambridge, 2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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