Hastings Rashdall (1858 – 1924) was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism. Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford. After short tenures at St David's University College and University College, Durham, Rashdall was made a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and dedicates his main work, The Theory of Good and Evil, to the memory of his teachers Thomas Hill Green and Henry Sidgwick.

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  • Hastings Rashdall (1858 – 1924) was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism. Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford. After short tenures at St David's University College and University College, Durham, Rashdall was made a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and dedicates his main work, The Theory of Good and Evil, to the memory of his teachers Thomas Hill Green and Henry Sidgwick. The dedication is appropriate, for the particular version of utilitarianism put forward by Rashdall owes elements to both Green and Sidgwick. Whereas he holds that the concepts of good and value are logically prior to that of right, he gives right a more than instrumental significance. His idea of good owes more to Green than to the hedonistic utilitarians. "The ideal of human life is not the mere juxtaposition of distinct goods, but a whole in which each good is made different by the presence of others. " Rashdall has been eclipsed as a moral philosopher by G. E. Moore, who advocated similar views in his earlier work Principia Ethica. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1904 to 1907, a member of the Christian Social Union from its inception in 1890, and was an influential Anglican modernist theologian of the time, being appointed to a canonry in 1909. Rashdall was also a Berkeleyan, believing in metaphysical idealism.
  • Hastings Rashdall, född 1868, död 1924, var en brittisk historiker, filosof och teolog. Hastings Rashdall var universitetslärare i Oxford 1884-1917, därefter domprost i Carlisle. Hans stora verk The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages hade länge en rangplats inom idé- och lärdomshistoria. Som filosof representerade han en utpräglat etisk teism och personalism. I The Theory of Good and Evil har Rashdall hävdat en rationell och altruistisk utilitarism. Bland Rashdalls teologiska arbeten finns hans "Bampton lectures" om The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology. Rashdall var den erkände ledaren för den liberala riktningen inom den anglikanska kyrkan. Han lade ned ett energiskt arbete på att höja prästutbildningen och utjämna de religiösa motsättningarna. Han var motståndare till dogmatisk intolerans.
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  • Hastings Rashdall (1858 – 1924) was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism. Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford. After short tenures at St David's University College and University College, Durham, Rashdall was made a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and dedicates his main work, The Theory of Good and Evil, to the memory of his teachers Thomas Hill Green and Henry Sidgwick.
  • Hastings Rashdall, född 1868, död 1924, var en brittisk historiker, filosof och teolog. Hastings Rashdall var universitetslärare i Oxford 1884-1917, därefter domprost i Carlisle. Hans stora verk The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages hade länge en rangplats inom idé- och lärdomshistoria. Som filosof representerade han en utpräglat etisk teism och personalism. I The Theory of Good and Evil har Rashdall hävdat en rationell och altruistisk utilitarism.
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