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25Review essay: Mr. Smith does not go to WashingtonPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (3): 366-386. 2007.A recent spate of books on the life and legacy of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, notably Steven B. Smith's Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, and Judaism , suggests a desperate effort to salvage Strauss and the Straussian school of political philosophy from the wreckage of American neoconservatism. Although a number of these works are quite thoughtful and helpfully counter many of the more extreme (and uglier) charges made concerning the meaning of Straussianism and its political…Read more
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24SidgwickIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2013.This chapter discusses the life and ethical philosophy of Henry Sidgwick. His masterpiece, The Methods of Ethics, first published in 1874, marks the culmination of the classical and nontheological utilitarian tradition, which took ‘the greatest happiness’ as the fundamental normative demand. Sidgwick was also a reformer who always advocated education as the crucial issue for historical progress, in ethics, economics, politics, and other areas. His practical ethics, often only indirectly utilitar…Read more
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24Book ReviewsJean Bethke Elshtain,. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.New York: Basic, 2002. Pp. xxii+329. $28.00 (review)Ethics 113 (2): 407-410. 2003.
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23Book ReviewsAnne Norton,. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+235. $25.00 (review)Ethics 115 (4): 838-842. 2005.
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19Book ReviewsRoger Crisp,. Reasons and the Good.Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. Pp. x+178. $45.00Ethics 118 (1): 143-146. 2007.
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18Introduction: Bertrand Russell in ethics and politics, the vicissitudes of growth and powerPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (2): 157-161. 1996.
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18Atti del secondo Congresso internazionale su Henry Sidgwick: etica, psichica, politica (edited book)Universita degli Studi di Catania. 2011.
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17Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to EwingBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (6): 1223-1226. 2012.No abstract
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17Review of Philip ironside's: The social and political thought of Bertrand Russell (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (2): 267-278. 1996.
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15Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry , To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. , pp. 464. $35.00 (review)Utilitas 31 (4): 486-493. 2019.
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14Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual BiographyCambridge University Press. 2004.Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics, education and literature. He was deeply involved in the founding of the first college for women at the University of Cambridge. He was also much concerned with the sexual politics of his close friend John Addington Symonds, a pioneer of gay studies. T…Read more
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14Pragmatist in Chief: Further Reflections on the Pragmatism of Barack ObamaContemporary Pragmatism 8 (2): 7-15. 2011.Although U.S. President Barack Obama has often sounded the rhetorical notes of a certain type of philosophical pragmatism, his actual policies during his presidency have to date failed to address in adequate fashion the structural inequalities that seriously compromise the American democratic potential. Thus, from the perspective of a Deweyan democratic pragmatism, which could readily side with Occupy Wall Street and related movements, the Obama presidency has yet to prove that it is truly commi…Read more
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14Bertrand Russell in ethics and politics, philosophy and powerPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (3): 317-321. 1996.
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12Utilitarianism and Empire (edited book)Lexington Books. 2005.The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by l…Read more
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10Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher. Edited by Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane LavertyTeaching Philosophy 45 (3): 390-393. 2022.
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10The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great UtilitariansPrinceton University Press. 2017.A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other founders In The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism—one of the most influential yet misunderstood and maligned philosophies of the past two centuries. Best known for arguing that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong," utilitarianism was d…Read more
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9Nicholas Capaldi, John Stuart Mill: A Biography:John Stuart Mill: A BiographyEthics 115 (3): 601-605. 2005.
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8Chapter Two. Jeremy Bentham’s DreamIn The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians, Princeton University Press. pp. 53-110. 2017.
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8ContentsIn The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians, Princeton University Press. 2017.
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7Mill on Nationality (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (4): 567-568. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.4 (2003) 567-568 [Access article in PDF] Georgios Varouxakis. Mill on Nationality. New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. ix + 169. Cloth $80.00. Georgios Varouxakis is a leader in the new generation of Mill scholars, and his work is exciting and provocative. Well-versed in recent debates over nationalism, colonialism, orientalism, and racism, he aims to address rather than avoid questions about Mill's…Read more
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7Chapter One. The Adventures of William GodwinIn The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians, Princeton University Press. pp. 9-52. 2017.
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6Chapter Three. John Stuart Mill and CompanyIn The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians, Princeton University Press. pp. 111-217. 2017.
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