Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory

by David Lyons and Louis Lyons

Book Overview

This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195082184
• ISBN13: 9780195082180
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"