Social Rights and Duties, Volume 2: Addresses to Ethical Societies

Sir 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...

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1. Verfasser: Stephen, Leslie (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1896
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:Sir 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. In Volume 2, he discusses the ethical issues surrounding a range of topics, including luxury, heredity, crime and punishment, and duty
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (278 pages)
ISBN:9781139095372
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139095372

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