History of Utilitarian Ethics

Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada, and an Officer in the Order of Canada.

• ContentsPART I: JOHN LOCKEChapter 1: John Locke, Utilitarian Ethics and the Moral SensePART II: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MORAL-SENSE LITERATUREChapter 2: Lord Shaftesbury, Utilitarian Ethics and the Moral SenseChapter 3: Two Shaftesbury Critics: Bernard Mandeville and John BrownChapter 4: Francis Hutcheson and the Hutcheson-Locke RelationshipChapter 5: David Hume, Utilitarian Ethics, the Moral Sense and Distributive JusticeChapter 6: C.A.Helvétius and David Hartley: Utilitarian Ethics and the Moral SensePART III: ADAM SMITHChapter 7: Utilitarian Ethics in The Theory Of Moral Sentiments Chapter 8: Utilitarian Ethics and Distributive Justice in The Wealth Of NationsPART IV: JEREMY BENTHAMChapter 9: Bentham, Utilitarian Ethics and Distributive JusticeChapter 10: Bentham in Relation To Locke and the Eighteenth-Century LiteraturePART V: THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUSChapter 11: Malthus and the UtilitariansChapter 12: Malthus, Distributive Justice and the Equality IssuePART VI: JOHN STUART MILLChapter 13: Mill, Distributive Justice and ReformChapter 14: Mill, Ethical Progress and Personal LibertyChapter 15: Mill and The Moral Sense: The Return to Bentham (And Hutcheson)

"Hollander's latest book offers a lively, sharp and authoritative appraisal of the development of utilitarian thought from the early eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century that discounts many prevailing interpretations...The result is a veritable feast that bears all the hallmarks of rigorous scholarship that historians have come to expect from the author. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this well-told account of ethical utilitarianism from John Locke to John Stuart Mill." - Mark Donoghue, History of Economics Review"The value of this book...is in emphasizing the commonalities across different perspectives, and in so doing, offering a rich and generous history of utilitarian moral thought." - Tsin Yen Koh, Utilitas