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The Methods of Ethics

The Methods of Ethics

The Methods of Ethics is a book on ethics first published in 1874 by the English philosopher Henry Sidgwick. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy indicates that The Methods of Ethics "in many ways marked the culmination of the classical utilitarian tradition." Noted moral and political philosopher John Rawls, writing in the Forward to the Hackett reprint of the 7th edition,


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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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