Social Rights and Duties 2 Volume Set
Social Rights and Duties 2 Volume Set
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USDSir 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. Both volumes examine the ethical issues surrounding a range of topics including politics, morality, duty, and crime and punishment.
Product details
December 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108037044
544 pages
216 × 140 × 32 mm
0.72kg
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1:
- 1. The aims of ethical societies
- 2. Science and politics
- 3. The sphere of political economy
- 4. The morality of competition
- 5. Social equality
- 6. Ethics and the struggle for existence. Volume 2:
- 1. Heredity
- 2. Punishment
- 3. Luxury
- 4. The duties of authors
- 5. The vanity of philosophising
- 6. Forgotten benefactors.
