Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual BiographyHenry 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. Through his famous student, G. E. Moore, a direct line can be traced from Sidgwick and his circle to the Bloomsbury group. Bart Schultz has written a magisterial overview of this great Victorian sage. This biography will be eagerly sought out by readers interested in philosophy, Victorian literary studies, the history of ideas, the history of psychology and gender and gay studies. |
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Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe reflects a very long, very strange trip. It is
quite possihle that my thinking ahout Henry Sidgwick (and John Addington
Symondsl hegan longer ago than I can actually recall, at some point in the 1960s
when I ...
Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe reflects a very long, very strange trip. It is
quite possihle that my thinking ahout Henry Sidgwick (and John Addington
Symondsl hegan longer ago than I can actually recall, at some point in the 1960s
when I ...
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Henry Sidgwick, "Autohiographical Fragment" dictated from his deathhed'
Stranger lives than Henry Sidgwick's have resulted from the philosophical quest
for the ultimate truth about the Universe, hut his is nonetheless a source of
considerahle ...
Henry Sidgwick, "Autohiographical Fragment" dictated from his deathhed'
Stranger lives than Henry Sidgwick's have resulted from the philosophical quest
for the ultimate truth about the Universe, hut his is nonetheless a source of
considerahle ...
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John Stuart Mill, "Whewell on Moral Philosophy''' I. Sidgwick and the Talking Cure
When Henry Sidgwick died of cancer, on August 28, 1900, he was even less at
home in the world than Bentham or Mill had heen when they passed on. He was
...
John Stuart Mill, "Whewell on Moral Philosophy''' I. Sidgwick and the Talking Cure
When Henry Sidgwick died of cancer, on August 28, 1900, he was even less at
home in the world than Bentham or Mill had heen when they passed on. He was
...
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uncle Rohert's house in Skipton, and the light this shed on the Sidgwick
genealogy: My uncle is still meditating the ... Henry's father did not go into the
cotton-spinning husiness, hut was sent to Trinity College, Camhridge, graduating
in 1829.
uncle Rohert's house in Skipton, and the light this shed on the Sidgwick
genealogy: My uncle is still meditating the ... Henry's father did not go into the
cotton-spinning husiness, hut was sent to Trinity College, Camhridge, graduating
in 1829.
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Contents
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Consensus versus Chaos | 137 |
Spirits | 275 |
Friends versus Friends | 335 |
Colors | 509 |
Last Words? | 669 |
Notes | 727 |
Index | 803 |
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Page vi - Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
Page 372 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 187 - ... admit of indefinite improvement, and, in a progressive state of the human mind, their improvement is perpetually going on. But to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing; to pass over the intermediate generalizations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another.
Page 105 - Not only does all strengthening of social ties, and all healthy growth of society, give to each individual a stronger personal interest in practically consulting the welfare of others; it also leads him to identify his feelings more and more with their good, or at least with an even greater degree of practical consideration for it.
Page 105 - If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion, directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make \ every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides both by the profession and the practice of it...
Page 509 - He is not truly reconciled either with life or with himself; and this instant war in his members sometimes divides the man's attention. He does not always, perhaps not often, frankly surrender himself in conversation. He brings into the talk other thoughts than those which he expresses; you are conscious that he keeps an eye on something else, that he does not shake off the world, nor quite forget himself.
Page 193 - I obtain the selfevident principle that the good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may say so) of the universe, than the good of any other...
Page 54 - I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living for men, you will believe me even less.
Page 372 - Only be sure it is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
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| Title | Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography |
| Author | Bart Schultz |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1139453920, 9781139453929 |
| Length | 858 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / General Literary Criticism / General Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern Philosophy / Political Social Science / LGBT Studies / Lesbian Studies |
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