Social Rights and Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies

di Leslie Stephen (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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.

• Autore: Leslie Stephen
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 278 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 360 gr.
• EAN: 9781108037037

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