Classical Utilitarianism and the Anxiety of Influence
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- ISBN 9780197912591
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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J. S. Mill and Henry Sidgwick's versions of classical utilitarianism have had an enormous effect on the development of modern English-speaking ethical philosophy. This study traces the impact of their thinking at Oxford and Cambridge during the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century, when analytical philosophizing began to emerge. It shows how much idealists such as T. H. Green and F. H. Bradley, ideal utilitarians such as G. E. Moore and Hastings Rashdall, and later intuitionists like W. D. Ross, H. A. Prichard, A. C. Ewing, and C. D. Broad owed to them, despite what the received view has assumed. It also explores how their impact was entangled with evolutionary theorizing in the aftermath of Darwin.
David Weinstein is Professor Emeritus at Wake Forest University, and Honorary Professor at the University of Oldenburg. Previously, Professor Weinstein was Lady Davis Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Plumer Research Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford, John Stuart Mill Visiting Chair of Social Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, and a Fulbright Fellow at Leipzig University. His most recent publications include John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life co-edited with B. Eggleston and D. Miller (OUP, 2010) and Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich co-authored with Avihu Zakai (CUP, 2017).
