dc.contributor.author | Lamb, Robert | en_GB |
dc.contributor.department | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-03-06T00:09:27Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-25T11:43:32Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-20T16:35:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-01 | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | The aim of this article is to discuss whether the political thought of the late eighteenth-century British philosopher William Godwin--as expressed in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, published in three different editions during the 1790s--is best described as utilitarian. The significance of this issue and its resolution are threefold. First, it is important within Godwin scholarship. My objective is to rehabilitate the utilitarian reading. Second, attention to this issue informs understandings of late eighteenth-century utilitarianism. Third, it speaks to a methodological problem in the history of ideas because ascribing a utilitarian moral theory to Godwin involves a rejection of the claim, associated with the work of Quentin Skinner, that we cannot ascribe to past thinkers concepts that they lack the linguistic means to express. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | 70(1), pp.119-141 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10036/52453 | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi.70.1.html | en_GB |
dc.subject | Godwin, William | en_GB |
dc.subject | utilitarianism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Bentham, Jeremy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Skinner, Quentin | en_GB |
dc.title | Was William Godwin a Utilitarian? | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2009-03-06T00:09:27Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-25T11:43:32Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-20T16:35:39Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-5037 | en_GB |
dc.description | Copyright © by Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 70, Number 1 (January 2009). All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. Published version. 12 month embargo by the publisher. Article will be released January 2010. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1086-3222 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of the History of Ideas | en_GB |