Sacrifice Regained

Does being virtuous make you happy? Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called ''British Moralists'', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Th...