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Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist; he held the Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy from the year 1883 until his death. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research and a member of the Metaphysical Society and promoted the higher education of women. His work in economics has also had a lasting influence.

He also founded Newnham College in 1875, a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College. The co-founder of the college was Millicent Garrett Fawcett.

He joined the Cambridge Apostles intellectual secret society in 1856.



✵ 31. May 1838 – 28. August 1900
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The Methods of Ethics
The Methods of Ethics
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“A universal refusal to propagate the human species would be the greatest of conceivable crimes from a Utilitarian point of view.”

Source: The Methods of Ethics (1874), Book 4, chapter 5, section 3 (7th ed., 1907)

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