A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics - The Methods of Ethics. With a rather shocking conclusion that 'none of us can match Sidgwick', Mariko Nakano-Okuno lucidly analyzes Henry Sidgwick's impacts on contemporary ethics.

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MARIKO NAKANO-OKUNO is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University, USA, and an award-winning philosopher/author in Japan. Her work includes 'Sidgwick and Kant: On the So-called 'Discrepancies' between Utilitarian and Kantian Ethics,' in Henry Sidgwick: Happiness and Religion, edited by Bucolo, Crisp & Schultz (2007).

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Introduction PART I: SIDGWICK'S THEORY OF ETHICS The Scope of Ethics An Overview of The Methods of Ethics Three Methods, Intuition, and Common Sense Meta-Ethical Analyses Testing the Significance of Apparent Truths The Three Fundamental Principles Philosophical Foundations of Utilitarianism PART II: A RE-EXAMINATION OF CONTEMPORARY UTILITARIANISM An Approach Not Appealing to Moral Intuition A Reappraisal of Hedonism Interpersonal Comparison and Maximization Reconciling the Dualism of the Practical Reason Concluding Chapter Notes Bibliography Index