出版社：University of Trieste, Department of Philosophy
摘要：In the following pages the reader will find the first part of a collection of
essays devoted to themes from the thought of Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900),
mainly focused on his masterpiece, The Methods of Ethics (1874).1 The work
of Henry Sidgwick has had certainly a peculiar fate in the philosophical
debate of the twentieth century. As lamented by Bart Schultz in the
Foreword to his classic collection Essays on Henry Sidgwick, published in the
early nineties, the attention paid to Sidgwick¡¯s work is not comparable to
the attention received by the great British thinkers of the past. We still do
not have critical editions of his work, nor do we have many volumes
dedicated to him (there are relatively few indeed if compared to the studies
available on Hobbes, Hume or Mill). Finally, at least at the time when
Schultz was writing, Sidgwick¡¯s books, with the exception of the Methods of
Ethics and the Outlines of the History of Ethics for English Readers, were
unobtainable.2
