Abstract
It is evident that Henry Sidgwick was a utilitarian, from his writings and from the testimony of people closest to him. For example, in The Elements of Politics, Sidgwick asserts that there is a general assent among people that the ultimate criterion for determining right and wrong in legislation is a utilitarian one (Sidgwick 1891, Ch. 3 Sec. 2 pp. 34–5; 3rd edn, 1908, pp. 37–8). In his 1897 essay, he also states that ‘for those who, like myself, hold that the only true basis for morality is a utilitarian basis’ (‘Public Morality’, in Sidgwick 1898, p. 63).KeywordsMoral RuleMoral ThinkingUtilitarian EthicUtilitarian PrinciplePhilosophical IntuitionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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