Henry Sidgwick

Person · Open Library

Born

1838

Died

1900

Works

77

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,439x

2. The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis

   · 1998 · cited 19,795x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,955x

4. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

   · 2016 · cited 15,435x

5. Nonparametric Tests Against Trend

   · 1945 · cited 14,285x

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Quotes

• “The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view...of the Universe, than the good of any other; unless, that is, there are special grounds for believing that more good is likely to be realized in the one case than in the other.”
• “Each person is morally obliged to regard the good of anyone else as much as his own good, except when he judges it to be less, when impartially viewed, or less certainly knowable or attainable by him.”
• “How far we are to consider the interests of posterity when they seem to conflict with those of now-existing human beings? The answer to this, though, seems clear: the time at which a man exists can’t affect the value of his happiness from a universal point of view; so the interests of posterity must concern a utilitarian as much as those of his contemporaries—except in that the effect of his actions on the lives and even the existence of posterity must be more uncertain.”
• “A universal refusal to propagate the human species would be the greatest of conceivable crimes from a Utilitarian point of view”
• “it is reasonable for a Utilitarian to praise any conduct more felicific in its tendency than what an average man would do under the given circumstances:—being aware of course that the limit down to which praiseworthiness extends must be relative to the particular state of moral progress reached by mankind generally in his age and country; and that it is desirable to make continual efforts to elevate this standard.”
• “Plato’s reason for claiming that the life of the Philosopher has more pleasure than that of the Sensualist is palpably inadequate. The philosopher, he argues, has tried both kinds of pleasure, sensual as well as intellectual, and prefers the delights of philosophic life; the sensualist ought therefore to trust his decision and follow his example. But who can tell that the philosopher’s constitution is not such as to render the enjoyments of the senses, in his case, comparatively feeble?”

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Key facts

Born

( 1838-05-31 ) 31 May 1838, Skipton , Yorkshire , England

Died

28 August 1900 (1900-08-28) (aged 62), Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , England

Spouse

Eleanor Mildred Balfour ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1876 ) ​

Relatives

Mary Benson (sister)

Alma mater

Trinity College, Cambridge

Era

19th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Utilitarianism

Institutions

Trinity College, Cambridge

Notable students

William Ernest Johnson

Main interests

Economics , ethics , political philosophy

Notable ideas

Average and total utilitarianism , ethical hedonism , ethical intuitionism , paradox of hedonism

Political party

Liberal Unionist Party

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