Sidgwick and the Cambridge Moralists

Authors

  • Jerome B. Schneewind Johns Hopkins University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.654

Keywords:

empiryzm, utylitaryzm, John Stuart Mill, anglikanizm

Abstract

Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics arose in large part out of the author’s consideration of a kind of argument for God’s existence developed (as I show) by his Cambridge predecessors in moral philosophy. They argued that there is a continuous and increasingly clear revelation of himself by God through common moral experience. Sidgwick’s examination of common sense morality undermines this argument. It shows common sense to be both utilitarian and egoistic. Neither of them was acceptable as articulating Christian morality. Taken together, they show common sense morality to be incoherent.

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Published

2008-12-01

How to Cite

Schneewind, Jerome B. 2008. “Sidgwick and the Cambridge Moralists”. Etyka 41 (December). Warsaw, Poland:43-71. https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.654.

Issue

Vol. 41 (2008)

Section

Papers

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