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Social Rights and Duties : Addresses to Ethical Societies

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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. In Volume 2, he discusses the ethical issues surrounding a range of topics, including luxury, heredity, crime and punishment, and duty."

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  • ISBN-13: 9781108037037
  • ISBN-10: 1108037038
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: December 2011
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
  • Page Count: 278

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