H. B. Acton

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H. B. Acton is affiliated with the following schools: Royal Holloway, University of London, London School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Harry Burrows Acton was an English academic in the field of political philosophy, known for books defending the morality of capitalism, and attacking Marxism-Leninism. He in particular produced arguments on the incoherence of Marxism, which he described as a 'farrago' . His book The Illusion of the Epoch, in which this appears, is a standard point of reference. Other interests were the Marquis de Condorcet, Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, F. H. Bradley, Bernard Bosanquet and Sidney Webb. Acton also endorsed a version of negative utilitarianism, according to which the reduction of suffering has unique moral importance.

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H. B. Acton's Published Works

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Kant's Moral Philosophy (1970) (238)
Utilitarianism Liberty ; Representative Government ; Selections From Auguste Comte and Positivism (1972) (77)
The illusion of the epoch (1955) (34)
The Philosophy of Punishment (1969) (34)
Philosophy and Ideology: The Development of Philosophy and Marxism-Leninism in Poland Since the Second World War (1963) (25)
The illusion of the epoch : Marxism-Leninism as a philosophical creed (1955) (23)
Distributive Justice, the Invisible Hand and the Cunning of Reason (1972) (16)
The Morals of Markets and Related Essays (1971) (16)
The philosophy of punishment : a collection of papers (1971) (13)
Comte's Positivism and the Science of Society (1951) (11)
What Marx really said (1968) (9)
The Ethical Importance Of Sympathy (1955) (9)
The Morals of Markets (1973) (9)
On Some Criticisms of Historical Materialism (1970) (9)
I.—Tradition and Some Other Forms of Order: The Presidential Address (1953) (8)
I.—THE THEORY OF CONCRETE UNIVERSALS (II.) (1936) (6)
Symposium: Negative Utilitarianism (1963) (6)
The morals of markets: An ethical exploration (1971) (5)
The Alleged Fascism of Plato (1938) (4)
X.—The Correspondence Theory of Truth (1935) (3)
Religious opinions and example of Milton, Locke, and Newton (1973) (2)
Pascal's Pensées. With an English translation, brief notes and introduction . By H. F. Stewart, D.D. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1950. Pp. xxiv + 543. Price 21s. net.) (1951) (2)
Philosophy in France (1936) (2)
The Moral Motive (1970) (2)
The Supreme Principle of Morality: Universal Law (1970) (2)
Introduction: Kant and the Enlightenment (1970) (1)
Religion, Culture, and Class (1950) (1)
God and Immortality (1970) (1)
Freedom of the Will and Morality (1970) (1)
Symposium: Is Ethical Relativity Necessary? (1938) (1)
Karl Popper's Critical Rationalism (1965) (1)
Book Review:Faith and History: A Comparison of Christian and Modern Views of History. Reinhold Niebuhr (1950) (1)
The ethics of capitalism (1972) (1)
The Principle of Autonomy and other Formulations of the Categorical Imperative (1970) (0)
Symposium: On Some Criticisms of Historical Materialism (1970) (0)
Kant’s Discussion of the Ordinary Moral Consciousness (1970) (0)
The Grundrisse. By Karl Marx. Edited and translated by David McLellan. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. ix, 156 pp. $5.95. (1972) (0)
Linear Programming and Related Techniques (1972) (0)
SUSAN STEBBING STUDENTSHIP (1947) (0)
Hegel's Conception of the Study of Human Nature (1970) (0)
Hypothetical Imperatives and the Categorical Imperative (1970) (0)
Henri Comte de Saint-Simon. Selected Writings . Edited and translated by F. M. H. Markham. (Blackwell's Political Texts. Oxford: Basil Black–well, 1952. Pp. xlix + 116. Price 12s. 6d. net.) (1954) (0)
XI—NEW BOOKS (1953) (0)
Remarks on J. and M. Miller's review of The Illusion of the Epoch (1956) (0)
Foundations for World Order. E. L. Woodward , J. Robert Oppenheimer , E. H. Carr , William E. Rappard , Robert M. Hutchins , Francis B. Sayre , Edward M. Earle (1949) (0)
Moral Subjectivism, Dr. Ewing's Method (1949) (0)
RUSSELL, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954) (0)
The Device of Government. An Essay in Civil Polity. By John Laird, LL.D., F.B.A. (Cambridge University Press. 1944. pp. 173. Price, 6s. net.) (1945) (0)
Mr. Stace's "refutation of realism" (1934) (0)
PHI volume 32 issue 120 Cover and Front matter (1957) (0)
PHI volume 32 issue 123 Cover and Front matter (1957) (0)
Science and the Course of History. By Pascual Jordan. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1955 (London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press). Pp. X + 139. 20s. (1957) (0)
XI.—The Materialist Conception of History (1952) (0)
The Marxist Outlook (1947) (0)
IV.—The Philosophy of History (1940) (0)
Marxism, Magic, and the New Rationality (1959) (0)
The True and the Valid . (Friends of Dr. Williams's Library. Eighth Lecture 1954). By Richard I. Aaron. Geoffrey Cumberlege. Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. 22. Price 3s. 6d. net. (1956) (0)
Some Ethical Bearings of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1970) (0)
The Royal Institute of Philosophy (1971) (0)
VII.—CRITICAL NOTICES (1936) (0)
Is Ethical Relativity Necessary (1938) (0)
The Expletive Theory of Morals (1936) (0)
To the Editor of Philosophy (1947) (0)
Marxism and the Open Mind. (1959) (0)
Marx in Wonderland (1958) (0)
Marx, Engels, and Marxism (1964) (0)
PHI volume 32 issue 121 Cover and Front matter (1957) (0)
Search for a Social Philosophy. By F. W. Eggleston. (Melbourne and London: Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press. 1941. Pp. 360. Price 15s.) (1946) (0)
New Studies in Ethics.Kant's Moral Philosophy.Ethical Naturalism: Hobbes and Hume.Axiological Ethics (1972) (0)

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