Thought and Action. Stuart Hampshire

Ethics ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-136
Author(s):  
Richard G. Henson
Keyword(s):  
Stuart Hampshire

Stuart Newton Hampshire 1914–2004

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Stuart Hampshire ◽  
The Human Condition ◽  
Ethics And Politics

Stuart Hampshire was one of the most interesting philosophers of the last half-century. He wrote extensively on ethics and politics during the second half of his career, but everything he wrote reflected the concerns that drew him to Aristotle, Spinoza, and Freud at the beginning of his career; and although he was never a Marxist, he never lost his respect for Marx's analysis of the conflicts and tensions inherent in any economically complex society. The last book Hampshire published in his lifetime was called, characteristically, Justice is Conflict, having begun with the title Justice is Strife. To the very end of his life, he wrote with an extraordinary freshness and lightness of touch, and preserved an open-minded curiosity about the human condition in all its aspects that would have been remarkable in someone fifty years younger.

scholarly journals 'Richly Imaginative Barbarism'

Theoria ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (160) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Derek Edyvane
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Value Pluralism ◽  
Stuart Hampshire ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
New Perspective

By way of an engagement with the thought of Stuart Hampshire and his account of the ‘normality of conflict’, this article articulates a novel distinction between two models of value pluralism. The first model identifies social and political conflict as the consequence of pluralism, whereas the second identifies pluralism as the consequence of social and political conflict. Failure to recognise this distinction leads to confusion about the implications of value pluralism for contemporary public ethics. The article illustrates this by considering the case of toleration. It contends that Hampshire’s model of pluralism offers a new perspective on the problem of toleration and illuminates a new way of thinking about the accommodation of diversity as ‘civility within conflict’.

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 150 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, VI

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bernard Williams ◽  
Peter Strawson ◽  
Stuart Hampshire

This series features studies of the lives and works of some of Britain's foremost scholars. This volume of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the Academy: Peter Birks; William Frend; John Gallagher; Philip Grierson; Stuart Hampshire; William McKane; Sir Malcolm Pasley; Ben Pimlott; Robert Pring-Mill; John Stevens; Peter Strawson; Hugh Trevor-Roper; Sir William Wade; Alan Williams; Sir Bernard Williams; and John Wymer.

Kant's Transcendental Deductions

Dialogue ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-582
Author(s):  
Mark Glouberman
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Stuart Hampshire

In default of astounding findings — Lampe penned much of the critical corpus — it is likely that continued Kantian exegesis will perforce be featured by more pain for less gain. And since philosophical events must in many respects overtake even so monumental a figure as Kant, does not the treatment of Kantian documents in current terms court anachronism? In a fashion which encourages such musings, the contents of this handsomely produced collection of essays, the proceedings of a 1987 conference at Stanford, deviate from straight exegesis. The contributors include prominent commentators on Kant: Lewis White Beck, Paul Guyer, Jules Vuillemin. A number — P. F. Strawson, John Rawls, Stuart Hampshire — are original philosophers of high calibre. Given the divergent pressures of textual fidelity, of novelty, and of philosophicality, the interaction challenges us to consider the prospects. An especially illuminating portion of the discussion in this regard brings together Dieter Henrich, Guyer, and Strawson.

The Lesser Evil

2004 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Avishai Margalit
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Stuart Hampshire ◽  
Lesser Evil ◽  
The French Revolution

‘The Russian Revolution and the National Socialist ascendancy in Germany are the two most important sources of evidence of moral philosophy in our time, as the French Revolution was for Hegel and Marx, and later to Tocqueville and for Mill. Although both revolutions produced, both in intention and in effect, a triumph on a gigantic scale, there are often remarked differences between the evil effects planned and achieved.’ This is an observation made by Stuart Hampshire, a keen philosophical connoisseur of the 20th century.

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