Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 396 g
Addresses to Ethical Societies
Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 396 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
ISBN: 978-1-108-03703-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and a writer on philosophy, ethics, and literature, was educated at Eton, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained as a fellow and a tutor for a number of years. Though a sickly child, he later became a keen and successful mountaineer, taking part in first ascents of nine peaks in the Alps. In 1871 he became editor of the Cornhill Magazine. During his eleven-year tenure, he wrote two successful books on ethics, including The Science of Ethics in 1892, which was widely adopted as a standard textbook. This two-volume work, which was first published in 1896, brings together the lectures he gave to various ethical societies, mostly in London. In Volume 2, he discusses the ethical issues surrounding a range of topics, including luxury, heredity, crime and punishment, and duty.
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1. Heredity; 2. Punishment; 3. Luxury; 4. The duties of authors; 5. The vanity of philosophising; 6. Forgotten benefactors.
