Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy

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Henry Sidgwicks The Methods of Ethics challenges comparison as no other work in moral philosophy with Aristotles Ethics in the depth of its understanding of practical rationality and in its architectural coherence it rivals the work of Kant. In this historical rather than critical study Professor Schneewind shows how Sidgwicks arguments and conclusions represent rational developments of the work of Sidgwicks predecessors and brings out the nature and structure of the reasoning underlying his position.