Sympathy and Antipathy: Essays Legal and Philosophical

by James Allan

This title was first published in 2002.The search for a moral standard of right and wrong which is external to any particular evaluator, and so escapes subjectivity, has a long history. Jeremy Bentham, in trying to find such a standard, opted for utilitarianism, which at least provides an inter-subjective standard of right and wrong. Everything else, thought Bentham, however dressed up, collapses into the purely subjective principle of sympathy and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138733768
• ISBN13: 9781138733763
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge