Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism

by David Weinstein and D. Weinstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521026865
• ISBN13: 9780521026864
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"