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Henry Sidgwick

Henry Sidgwick
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Born (1838-05-31)31 May 1838
Skipton, Yorkshire
Died 28 August 1900(1900-08-28) (aged 62)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Era 19th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Utilitarianism
Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge
Main interests
Ethics, politics
Notable ideas
Ethical hedonism, paradox of hedonism

Henry Sidgwick (/ˈsɪwɪk/; 31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research and a member of the Metaphysical Society and promoted the higher education of women. His work in economics has also had a lasting influence.

He also founded Newnham College in 1875, a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College. The co-founder of the college was Millicent Garrett Fawcett.

He joined the Cambridge Apostles intellectual secret society in 1856.

He was born at Skipton in Yorkshire, where his father, the Reverend W. Sidgwick (d. 1841), was headmaster of the local grammar school, Ermysted's Grammar School. His mother was Mary Sidgwick, née Crofts (1807–1879).

Henry himself was educated at Rugby (where his cousin, subsequently his brother-in-law, Edward White Benson, later Archbishop of Canterbury, was a master), and at Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Trinity, Sidgwick became a member of the Cambridge Apostles. In 1859, he was senior classic, 33rd wrangler, chancellor's medallist and Craven scholar. In the same year, he was elected to a fellowship at Trinity, and soon afterwards, he became a lecturer in classics there, a post he held for ten years. The Sidgwick Site, home to several of the university's arts and humanities faculties in the university, is named after him.


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