Sentences with phrase «classical utilitarianism»

I believe that the resemblance of Hartshorne's ethical writings to classical utilitarianism, and in particular to John Stuart Mill's version of utilitarianism, is a very close one indeed.

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While the common - sense Lockian version was the most pervasive current of American thought has not been fully conscious of these implications, the relation between utilitarianism and Anglo - American social science has been close and continuous from Hobbes and Locke to the classical economists of the 18th and early 19th centuries to the social Darwinists of the late 19th century and finally to such influential present - day.