Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen /
Experts and utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries....
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : happiness, utility and the republic of letters / Mark Philp, Georgios Varouxakis
- Happiness and interests in politics : a late-Enlightenment debate / Emmanuelle de Champs
- Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812 / Philip Schofield
- Scepticism and Epicureanism : from David Hume to J.S. Mill / James Moore
- Bentham on 'Hume's virtues' / Jose L. Tasset
- Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on pleasure and virtue / Roger Crisp
- 'The first article to look to is power' : Bentham, happiness and the capability approach / Michael Quinn
- Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt's four freedoms / Manuel Escamilla-Castillo
- James Mill on happiness / Antis Loizides
- Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and higher pleasures / Jonathan Riley
- Individualist and totalizing ethical thinking in Mill's utilitarianism / John Charvet
- Mill and democracy : taking William Buckley seriously / Alan Ryan
- John Stuart Mill and the Jewish question : broadening the utilitarian maximand / Samuel Hollander
- The failure of planned happiness : the rise and fall of British home colonies / Barbara Arneil
- Making better sense of ideal utilitarianism / David Weinstein.