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Henry Sidgwick  

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  • Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) was a British utilitarian philosopher. His version of utilitarianism, presented in the 1874 The Methods of Ethics, built on and amended the work of fellow Victorian philosopher and political theorist John Stuart Mill. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Sidgwick, Henry]

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