Henry Sidgwick lived from 31 May 1838 to 28 August 1900 and was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist best known in philosophy for his treatise The Methods of Ethics, his work in economics also having lasting influence. He held the Knightbridge Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1883 until his death, was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, was a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women, co-founding Newnham College, a women-only constituent college of Cambridge, with Millicent Garrett Fawcett in 1875, the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College; in 1856 he had joined the Cambridge Apostles intellectual secret society.
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Henry Sidgwick (31 May 1838 - 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics.
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was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist
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the Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1883 until his death.
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one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research
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Skipton, Yorkshire, England
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics
Influenced By: Jeremy Bentham, Ethics section
Sidgwick developed this position due to his dissatisfaction with an inconsistency in Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism, between what he labels 'psychological hedonism' and 'ethical hedonism'.
Influenced By: John Stuart Mill, Ethics section
Sidgwick developed this position due to his dissatisfaction with an inconsistency in Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism, between what he labels 'psychological hedonism' and 'ethical hedonism'.
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