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The Moral Philosophy of J.A. Hobson

In: J. A. Hobson after Fifty Years

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J. A. Hobson was born one year prior to the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and J.S. Mill’s On Liberty. Thus laid out before him as a young man were the contours of a debate on the grounding of morality that was increasingly to preoccupy late Victorian society, now made anxious by the faltering of traditional religious conviction. Darwin’s theory of natural selection was of course an idea-force of paradigmatic power, fuelling, among many other things, several notable attempts to establish an objective standard of moral values identical with the workings of nature and which humankind ignored at its certain peril. Mill’s essay, on the other hand, was read by many as an especially compelling statement of the familiar position that morality was a cultural achievement, the product of noble spirits, and hence not reducible to biological drives and urges.

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  • John Allett, 1994. "The Moral Philosophy of J.A. Hobson," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: John Pheby (ed.), J. A. Hobson after Fifty Years, chapter 1, pages 1-18, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23213-0_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23213-0_1
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