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[ SOLD OUT ] CRISP, R., Sacrifice Regained. Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham. Oxford University Press, 2023. 256p. Paperback. Roger Crisp's excellent book concerns the relation between morality and self-interest in the British Moralists . . . Each chapter begins with a critical account of the moral theory of the moralist, followed by a critical discussion of the moralist's view of the relation between morality and self-interest. . . . Even readers not so concerned with the relation between morality and self-interest will benefit from the state-of-the-art treatments of the moral theories. You can piece together a fine short history of utilitarianism from the chapters on Cumberland, Hutcheson, Hume, Gay, Tucker, Paley and Bentham (and a short history of objections to utilitarianism from the chapters on Butler, Smith, and Price). And you can trace histories of certain strategies, such as (remarkably common) split-level defences of psychological egoism, rational egoism, or consequentialism. Robert Shaver, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Publisher's information). (New) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9780198896562