Happiness and utility : essays presented to Frederick Rosen /

Experts and utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries....

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Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Rosen, F. (honouree.), Varouxakis, Georgios, 1966- (Editor), Philp, Mark (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : happiness, utility and the republic of letters / Mark Philp, Georgios Varouxakis
  • Happiness and interests in politics : a late-Enlightenment debate / Emmanuelle de Champs
  • Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812 / Philip Schofield
  • Scepticism and Epicureanism : from David Hume to J.S. Mill / James Moore
  • Bentham on 'Hume's virtues' / José L. Tasset
  • Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on pleasure and virtue / Roger Crisp
  • 'The first article to look to is power' : Bentham, happiness and the capability approach / Michael Quinn
  • Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt's four freedoms / Manuel Escamilla-Castillo
  • James Mill on happiness / Antis Loizides
  • Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and higher pleasures / Jonathan Riley
  • Individualist and totalizing ethical thinking in Mill's utilitarianism / John Charvet
  • Mill and democracy : taking William Buckley seriously / Alan Ryan
  • John Stuart Mill and the Jewish question : broadening the utilitarian maximand / Samuel Hollander
  • The failure of planned happiness : the rise and fall of British home colonies / Barbara Arneil
  • Making better sense of ideal utilitarianism / David Weinstein.