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Utilitarianism and Malthus' Virtue Ethics - Respectable, Virtuous and Happy (Hardcover)
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Utilitarianism and Malthus' Virtue Ethics - Respectable, Virtuous and Happy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
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The die-hard image of Malthus the ogre has not completely
disappeared yet. And yet, Malthus showed no less concern than Adam
Smith for the labouring poor. In order to make full sense of such
expression of concern and to appraise their relevance in Malthus's
work, we need to know what moral philosophy, what view of natural
science, and what view of the "moral and political science" Malthus
endorsed. This book reconstructs Malthus's meta-ethics, his
normative ethics and his applied ethics on such topics as
population, poverty, sexuality and war and slavery. They show how
Malthus's understanding of his own population theory and political
economy was that of sub-disciplines of moral and political
philosophy. Empirical enquiries required in order to be able to
pronounce justified value judgments on such matters as the Poor
Laws. But Malthus's population theory and political economy were no
value-free science and his non-utilitarian policy advice resulted
from his overall system of ideas and was explicitly based on a set
of familiar moral assumptions. It is mistaken to claim that
Malthus's explanation of disharmony by reference to Divine Wisdom
is extraneous to analysis and without influence on the theory of
policy; it is true instead that theological consequentialist
considerations were appealed to in order to provide a justification
for received moral rules, but these were meant to justify a rather
traditional normative ethics, quite far from Benthamite 'new
morality'.
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