Social Rights and Duties

by Stephen, Leslie

• ISBN13: 9781108037037
• ISBN10: 1108037038
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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. Both volumes examine the ethical issues surrounding a range of topics including politics, morality, duty, and crime and punishment.

Table of Contents

Heredity

Punishment

Luxury

The duties of authors

The vanity of philosophising

Forgotten benefactors

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