Social rights and duties. Volume 2, : Addresses to ethical societies, in two volumes / Leslie Stephen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephen, Leslie, author.

Series:

Cambridge library collection. Philosophy.

Cambridge library collection. Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages).

Other Title:

Social rights and duties

Place of Publication:

New York : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1896.

Summary:

Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and a writer on philosophy, ethics, and literature, was educated at Eton, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained as a fellow and a tutor for a number of years. Though a sickly child, he later became a keen and successful mountaineer, taking part in first ascents of nine peaks in the Alps. In 1871 he became editor of the Cornhill Magazine. During his eleven-year tenure, he wrote two successful books on ethics, including The Science of Ethics in 1892, which was widely adopted as a standard textbook. This two-volume work, which was first published in 1896, brings together the lectures he gave to various ethical societies, mostly in London. In Volume 2, he discusses the ethical issues surrounding a range of topics, including luxury, heredity, crime and punishment, and duty.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (EBSCOhost, viewed June 05, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.