Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on Pleasure and Virtue
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Crisp, Roger. (2019). Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on Pleasure and Virtue. In In Varouxakis, Georgios and Philp, Mark (Ed.). Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen pp. 98 - 117 University College London (UCL) Press.
Authors | Crisp, Roger |
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Editors | Varouxakis, Georgios and Philp, Mark |
Abstract | John Stuart Mill’s hedonism – in particular, his arguments for a qualitative distinction between pleasures and for virtue as a constituent of happiness understood hedonistically – has been subjected to a huge amount of scrutiny, especially since the publication of the monumental Toronto edition of his works under the general editorship of John Robson. I have already contributed a few pebbles to this mountain of scholarly exegesis, and do not intend to add to it in this paper. Rather, I propose to focus on two British moral philosophers whose works in the eighteenth century could be described as broadly hedonist and who, like Mill, engaged closely with the questions of the relation of virtue and pleasure, and the roles of each in human happiness or well-being. Especially significant, perhaps, is the fact that both distinguished between higher and lower pleasures, placed virtue in the former category, and saw it as an important constituent of happiness. |
Keywords | utilitarianism; Professor Frederick Rosen; happiness; virtue ; hedonism ; John Stuart Mill; Shaftsbury; Hutcheson |
Page range | 98 - 117 |
Year | 01 Jan 2019 |
Book title | Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen |
Publisher | University College London (UCL) Press |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN | 978-1-78735-048-9 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvf3w1s5 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Author's accepted manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
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Online | 2019 |
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Deposited | 08 Aug 2024 |
Additional information | Text © the authors, 2019 |
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
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