Russell G. Smith
Ashgate Dartmouth
Hardback
312
2002
The search for a moral standard of right and wrong which is external to any particular evaluator thus escaping subjectivity has a long history. Jeremy Bentham attempting to find such a standard opted for utilitarianism which at least provided an inter-subjective standard of right and wrong - everything else collapses into the purely subjective principle of sympathy and antipathy. The author of this book shares Bentham?s views about sympathy and antipathy and shows that the principle is alive and well in legal philosophy today
Ashgate Dartmouth
Hardback
312
2002
The search for a moral standard of right and wrong which is external to any particular evaluator thus escaping subjectivity has a long history. Jeremy Bentham attempting to find such a standard opted for utilitarianism which at least provided an inter-subjective standard of right and wrong - everything else collapses into the purely subjective principle of sympathy and antipathy. The author of this book shares Bentham?s views about sympathy and antipathy and shows that the principle is alive and well in legal philosophy today