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Equal Freedom and Utility - Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism (Hardcover, New)
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Equal Freedom and Utility - Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ideas in Context
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This rich and provocative study assesses Herbert Spencer's pivotal
contribution to the emergence of liberal utilitarianism and shows
that Spencer, as much as J. S. Mill, provided liberal
utilitarianism with its formative contours. Like Mill, Spencer
tried to reconcile a principle of liberty and strong moral rights
with a utilitarian, maximizing theory of good. In this powerful and
sympathetic account, David Weinstein argues that Spencer's moral
and political thought exhibits greater systematic integrity than
received views of his thought acknowledge. However, Weinstein also
examines the problems and flaws in Spencer's version of liberal
utilitarianism, and shows that, precisely because of these flaws,
it is engaging and deserving of our critical attention. This
challenging study will be of interest to graduates and scholars in
the fields of political theory, moral and political philosophy, and
the history of political thought.
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