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Virtues of Resentment
Rae Langton
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26 January 2009, pp. 255-262
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On a consequentialist account of virtue, a trait is virtuous if it has good consequences, vicious if it has bad. Clumsiness and dimness are therefore vices. Should I resent the clumsy and the dim? ‘Yes’, says the consequentialist, counterintuitively - at any rate, Yes’ on an accuracy measure of resentment's virtue: resentment should be an accurate response to consequentialist vice, and these are vices. On a usefulness measure of resentment's virtue, the answer may be different: whether resentment is virtuous depends on whether resentment itself is useful. Equally counterintuitive, this answer divorces resentment from assessment of vice. Consequentialism is thus mistaken not only about when resentment is virtuous, but about what resentment is. Moreover it alienates the philosopher, for whom accuracy applies, from the agent, for whom usefulness applies. But abandoning this double standard would mean giving up philosophy.

Joseph Hamburger, John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. xx + 239.
Shigekazu Yamashita
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26 January 2009, pp. 360-363
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John Rawls, The Law of Peoples, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. viii + 199.
Jon Mandle
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26 January 2009, pp. 125-127
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Henry Sidgwick, Essays on Ethics and Method, ed. Marcus G. Singer, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xlvi + 346.
Bart Schultz
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26 January 2009, pp. 364-366
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John Broome, Ethics out of Economics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 267.
Kenneth G. Binmore
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26 January 2009, pp. 127-129
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M. W. Taylor, Men versus the State, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. x + 292. - M. W. Taylor (ed.), Herbert Spencer and the Limits of the State, Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 1996, pp. xxvi + 269.
Paul Kelly
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26 January 2009, pp. 129-132
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Jonathan Riley, Mill On Liberty, London, Routledge, 1998, pp. xiii + 241.
D Weinstein
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26 January 2009, pp. 366-369
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Glen Newey, Virtue, Reason and Toleration: the Place of Toleration in Ethical and Political Philosophy, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, pp. ix + 208.
Andrew Mason
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26 January 2009, pp. 132-134
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Brad Hooker and Margaret Olivia Little (ed.), Moral Particularism, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000, pp. xiv + 317.
Crystal Thorpe, D. Gene Witmer
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26 January 2009, pp. 369-371
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Desmond King, In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. xiii + 340.
Gerald F. Gaus
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26 January 2009, pp. 371-373
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William H. Shaw, Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999, pp. 311.
James Wood Bailey
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26 January 2009, pp. 134-136
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J. J. Kupperman, Value … And What Follows, New York, OUP, 1999, pp. vi + 168.
Timothy Chappell
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26 January 2009, pp. 373-375
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Dale Jamieson (ed.), Singer and his Critics, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999, pp. v + 368.
Lisa A. Eckenwiler
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Bruce Baum, Rereading Power and Freedom in J. S. Mill, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000, pp. 360.
Maria Helena Morales
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26 January 2009, pp. 378-381
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Mark Strasser, The Moral Philosophy of John Stuart Mill: Toward Modifications of Contemporary Utilitarianism, Wakefield, Longwood Academic, 1991, pp. xx + 289.
Christoph Schmidt-Petri
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26 January 2009, pp. 381-383
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Joseph Hamburger, John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. xx + 239.

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John Rawls, The Law of Peoples, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. viii + 199.

Henry Sidgwick, Essays on Ethics and Method, ed. Marcus G. Singer, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xlvi + 346.

John Broome, Ethics out of Economics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 267.

M. W. Taylor, Men versus the State, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. x + 292. - M. W. Taylor (ed.), Herbert Spencer and the Limits of the State, Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 1996, pp. xxvi + 269.

Jonathan Riley, Mill On Liberty, London, Routledge, 1998, pp. xiii + 241.

Glen Newey, Virtue, Reason and Toleration: the Place of Toleration in Ethical and Political Philosophy, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, pp. ix + 208.

Brad Hooker and Margaret Olivia Little (ed.), Moral Particularism, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000, pp. xiv + 317.

Desmond King, In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. xiii + 340.

William H. Shaw, Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999, pp. 311.

J. J. Kupperman, Value … And What Follows, New York, OUP, 1999, pp. vi + 168.

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Dale Jamieson (ed.), Singer and his Critics, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999, pp. v + 368.

Bruce Baum, Rereading Power and Freedom in J. S. Mill, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000, pp. 360.

Mark Strasser, The Moral Philosophy of John Stuart Mill: Toward Modifications of Contemporary Utilitarianism, Wakefield, Longwood Academic, 1991, pp. xx + 289.

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