British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing (Hurka - paperback)

Author: Thomas Hurka

ISBN: 9780198801528

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they 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 contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed.