The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics

Roger Crisp presents a comprehensive study of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics, a landmark work first published in 1874. Crisp argues that Sidgwick is largely right about central issues in moral philosophy: the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, consequentialism, hedonism about well-being, and the weight to be given to self-interest.