Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism / D. Weinstein.
In this study, David Weinstein argues that nineteenth-century English New Liberalism was considerably more indebted to classical English utilitarianism than the received view holds. T.H. Green, L.T. Hobhouse, D.G. Ritchie and J.A. Hobson were liberal consequentialists who followed J.S. Mill in tryin...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Between Kantianism and utilitarianism: T.H. Green
- 3. Between utilitarianism and perfectionism: L.T. Hobhouse
- 4. Excursus: Green, Hobhouse and contemporary moral philosophy
- 5. Vindicating utilitarianism: D.G. Ritchie
- 6. Utilitarian socialism: J.A. Hobson
- 7. Conclusion: intellectual history and the idolatry of conceptual dichotomies.