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  1. The God of Metaphysics.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2006 - Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    Many thinkers have said that a God whose existence is argued for metaphysically would have no religious significance even if he existed. This book examines the God or Absolute which emerges in various metaphysical systems and asks whether he, she, or it could figure in any genuinely religious outlook. The systems studied are those of Spinoza, Hegel, T. H. Green, F. H. Bradley (very briefly), Bernard Bosanquet, Josiah Royce, A. N. Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne. There is also a chapter on Kierkegaard (...)
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    The Rational Foundations of Ethics.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1989 - Philosophy 64 (247):113-114.
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  3. A utilitarian reply to dr. McCloskey.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1965 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 8 (1-4):264 – 291.
    A theory of punishment should tell us not only when punishment is permissible but also when it is a duty. It is not clear whether McCloskey's retributivism is supposed to do this. His arguments against utilitarianism consist largely in examples of punishments unacceptable to the common moral consciousness but supposedly approved of by the consistent utilitarian. We remain unpersuaded to abandon our utilitarianism. The examples are often fanciful in character, a point which (pace McCloskey) does rob them of much of (...)
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    The Puzzle of Experience.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1995 - Philosophical Quarterly 45 (178):125-127.
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  5. A Morally Deep World: An Essay on Moral Significance and Environmental Ethics.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1992 - Philosophical Quarterly 42 (168):378.
    Lawrence Johnson advocates a major change in our attitude toward the nonhuman world. He argues that nonhuman animals, and ecosystems themselves, are morally significant beings with interests and rights. The author considers recent work in environmental ethics in the introduction and then presents his case with the utmost precision and clarity. Written in an attractive, nontechnical style, the book will be of particular interest to philosophers, environmentalists and ecologists.
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  6. The Greatest Happiness Principle*: T. L. S. Sprigge.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1991 - Utilitas 3 (1):37-51.
    My purpose in what follows is not so much to defend the basic principle of utilitarianism as to indicate the form of it which seems most promising as a basic moral and political position. I shall take the principle of utility as offering a criterion for two different sorts of evaluation: first, the merits of acts of government, social policies, and social institutions, and secondly, the ultimate moral evaluation of the actions of individuals. I do not take it as implying (...)
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    Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2003 - Mind 112 (448):749-754.
  8. Is the esse of intrinsic value percipi?: pleasure, pain and value.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2000 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 47:119-140.
    If there is such a thing as a genuine property appropriately called "intrinsic value" this property must be such that recognition that something does, or would, possess it, has a necessary tendency to motivate towards sustaining that thing in existence or producing it (if possible). There is just one thing which possesses that property and that is the property of being pleasurable (properly conceived) which, therefore, is the same as intrinsic value. (The same, mutatis mutandis, applies to intrinsic disvalue and (...)
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  9. The Unreality of Time.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1992 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92 (1):1-20.
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    Metaphysics, physicalism, and animal rights.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1979 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 22 (1-4):101 – 143.
    As ethical attitudinists say, ethical statements cannot be strictly true or false, since they express wishes or attitudes, not beliefs. However, the wishes expressed by basic moral judgments about human rights are such that it is a necessary truth that those who know what human beings are have them, and those who do not acknowledge these rights show their lack of a living sense of human reality. The same goes for basic judgments about the rights of animals, and it is (...)
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    Non-human rights: An idealist perspective.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1984 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 27 (1-4):439 – 461.
    The question whether an entity has rights is identified with that as to whether an intrinsic value resides in it which imposes obligations to foster it on those who can appreciate this value. There should be no difficulty in granting that animals have rights in this sense, but what of other natural objects and artifacts? It seems that various inanimate things, such as fine buildings and forests, often possess such intrinsic value, yet since they can only be fully actual in (...)
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  12. Utilitarianism and Respect for Human Life.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1989 - Utilitas 1 (1):1.
    Bentham and Mill and probably most utilitarians have a good deal in common with Hobbes and Spinoza as moral thinkers. For they share a commitment to deriving ethics from the actual and normal motivitations of human beings as creatures of the natural world rather than, like Kant and many religious moralists, from some transcendent realm to the requirements of which natural man has a duty to submit without expecting any help therefrom in the satisfaction of his natural inclinations. In the (...)
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    Idealism.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2002 - In Richard M. Gale (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 219–241.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Definition of Idealism Main Idealist Thinkers Absolute Idealism Vindicated (1) Phenomenalism (2) The Physical World as Imaginative Construction (3) The Purely Structural View of the Physical World (4) Panpsychism.
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  14. (1 other version)Santayana.T. L. S. Sprigge (ed.) - 1974 - New York: Routledge.
    This classic study of Santayana was the first book to appear in the _Arguments of the Philosophers_ series. Growing interest in the work of this important American philosopher has prompted this new edition of the book complete with a new preface by the author reassessing his own ideas about Santayana and reflecting the new interest in the philosopher's work. A select bibliography of works published about Santayana since the book's first appearance is also included.
     
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    Are there Intrinsic Values in Nature?T. L. S. Sprigge - 1987 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 4 (1):21-28.
    ABSTRACT Some think we should look at aspects of what is commonly thought of as non‐sentient nature as having a value in themselves apart from the use or recreation they provide for humans or even animals. But to what extent does nature, in the character it presents to us, exist apart from presence to consciousness such as ours? Surely at least many of its aspects cannot. However, that does not stop them having a genuinely intrinsic value, just as works of (...)
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    Utilitarianism and Idealism: A Rapprochement.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1985 - Philosophy 60 (234):447 - 463.
    Utilitarian ethics and metaphysical idealism, especially of a Bradleyan sort, are not usually thought of as natural allies. Yet when one considers that it is a crucial part of utilitarian doctrine that the only genuine value is experienced value and almost the definition of idealism that for it the only genuine reality is experienced reality one should surely suspect that the two views have a certain affinity. The essential impulse behind utilitarianism is the sense that the only criterion of something (...)
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    Other Times: Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and Future.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1997 - Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 61 (2):485-488.
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    Has Speculative Metaphysics a Future?T. L. S. Sprigge - 1998 - The Monist 81 (4):513-533.
    The value of Leibniz’s thought to us today must lie primarily in his metaphysical system and the help it can give us in our own metaphysical puzzlings. Such not merely historical interest it can only have for those of us who still regard metaphysics as a viable enterprise. Thus some discussion of the past and future of the metaphysical enterprise may provide a useful background for the studies of Leibniz’s thought in the other contributions to this issue of The Monist. (...)
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    Intrinsic Connectedness.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1988 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 88:129 - 145.
    T.L.S. Sprigge; VIII*—Intrinsic Connectedness, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 88, Issue 1, 1 June 1988, Pages 129–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/.
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    Spinoza and indexicals.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1997 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (1):3 – 22.
    Spinoza distinguishes between three grades of knowledge, (i) sense perception and hearsay; (ii) abstract scientific knowledge; (iii) intuitive reason. It is implied that our intellectual ideal should be to pass from the first to the second, and then from the second to the third. It is problematic, however, how such supersession of the first kind of knowledge is an intelligible ideal. For, on the face of it, it is this alone which can direct our attention on to those particulars (single (...)
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    The Justification of Punishment.J. E. McTaggart, Jeremy Bentham, H. Rashdall, T. L. S. Sprigge, John Austin, John Rawls, Richard Brandt, Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, F. H. Bradley, G. E. Moore, Herbert Morris, H. J. McCloskey, St Thomas Aquinas, K. G. Armstrong, A. C. Ewing, D. Daiches Raphael, H. L. A. Hart & J. D. Mabbott - 2015 - In Gertrude Ezorsky (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment, Second Edition. State University of New York Press. pp. 35-181.
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  22. A. J. Ayer: An Appreciation: T. L. S. Sprigge.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1990 - Utilitas 2 (1):1-11.
    As the editor noted in the last number Freddie Ayer, or Professor Sir Alfred Ayer, played a considerable part in launching the vast enterprise of the Bentham edition. It is fitting, therefore, that something be said in Utilitas about his achievement as a philosopher and the extent to which he falls within the same broad empiricist and utilitarian tradition to which Bentham and J. S. Mill belonged.
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  23. The Relation between Jeremy Bentham's Psychological, and his Ethical, Hedonism: T. L. S. Sprigge.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1999 - Utilitas 11 (3):296-319.
    The relationship between Bentham's ‘enunciative principle’ and his ‘censorial principle’ is famously problematic. The problem's solution is that each person has an overwhelming interest in living in a community in which they, like others, are liable to punishment for behaviour condemned by the censorial principle either by the institutions of the state or by the tribunal of public opinion. The senses in which Bentham did and did not think everyone selfish are examined, and a less problematic form of psychological hedonism (...)
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  24. Reinhardt Grossmann's ontological reduction.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1975 - Noûs 9 (4):429-445.
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    Lord Crowther-Hunt.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1975 - Philosophy 50 (194):381-381.
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    (1 other version)A History of Philosophy in America 1720–2000 By Bruce Kuklick, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2004 - Philosophy 79 (2):348-350.
    Ranging from Joseph Bellamy to Hilary Putnam, and from early New England Divinity Schools to contemporary university philosophy departments, historian Bruce Kuklick recounts the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States. Readers will explore the thought of early American philosphers such as Jonathan Edwards and John Witherspoon and will see how the political ideas of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson influenced philosophy in colonial America. Kuklick discusses The Transcendental Club (members Henry David Thoreau, Ralph (...)
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    A. J. Ayer (1910–1989).T. L. S. Sprigge - 2001 - In Aloysius Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A companion to analytic philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 205–217.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Language, Truth and Logic Later positions Notes Bibliography.
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    Booknotes.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1975 - Philosophy 50:373.
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    8. Bosanquet and Religion.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2005 - In William Sweet (ed.), Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism. University of Toronto Press. pp. 178-206.
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    Bradley and Christianity.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1995 - Bradley Studies 1 (1):69-85.
    This paper falls into two main parts. In the first I shall review some of the things Bradley said about Christianity as he conceived it. In the second I shall use this review to spell out more formally the logical relations between some main doctrines of Christianity and Bradley’s mature philosophy.
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  31. Bradley and the structure of knowledge. Phillip Ferreira.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2001 - Mind 110 (439):746-749.
  32. BRADLEY, FH-Collected Works Volumes 1-5.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2001 - Philosophical Books 42 (4):276-282.
     
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    A Comment on Timothy Sprigge’s Account of William James.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1996 - Bradley Studies 2 (1):64-71.
    Graham Bird’s ‘A Comment on Timothy Sprigge’s Account of William James’, in the last issue of Bradley Studies might have better been called ‘A Comment on Timothy Sprigge’s Account of Graham Bird on William James’ True, that would identify its topic as a somewhat limited one as, if the index is correct, there are just nine sentences on this topic in my book James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality. But it appears to be the matter which has mainly (...)
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  34. Baruch Spinoza.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1995 - In Ted Honderich (ed.), The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 67--74.
     
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    Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1992 - Philosophical Books 33 (4):248-249.
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    Creativity in American Philosophy, by Charles Hartshorne.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1987 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 18 (2):207-209.
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    Concluding Remarks.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2006 - In The God of Metaphysics. Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    Religion has been described in this book as ‘a truth to live by’. This last chapter considers with reference to each of the philosophers discussed at any length in this book whether his metaphysics could provide anyone who accepted it with such a ‘truth’. Each of them qualifies as religiously significant from this point of view. The truth of the system matters for anyone inclined to adopt it but what matters for others is its ethical effect upon him or her.
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    Dewey (Arguments of the Philosophers).T. L. S. Sprigge - 1992 - Philosophical Books 31 (4):207-210.
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    Dreyfus and Spinosa on things-in-themselves.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1999 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 42 (1):115 – 124.
    It is questioned whether Dreyfus and Spinosa's essay faces the real issue of things-inthemselves. The importance of distinguishing three interconnected problems deserving to come under Dreyfus and Spinosa's title, 'Coping with Things-in-themselves', is stressed. These are (1) What is the real nature of the world in the midst of which we, whatever we really are, exist?; (2) Can the properties of things (or even of types of things) be distinguished into two types, those which belong to them necessarily (with a (...)
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    (1 other version)George Santayana.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1985 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 19 (158):115-133.
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    Hegelian Christianity.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2006 - In The God of Metaphysics. Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    After a brief discussion of Kant’s critique of attempts to prove the existence of God, this chapter turns to Hegel. After some account of his life, there follows an account of his early posthumous theological essays. The chapter moves on to his final system. Some account is offered of his dialectical method and the progression from Pure Being, through the three great categories of The Idea in itself or The Logical Idea, The Idea outside itself or Nature, and the Idea (...)
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    Introductory.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2006 - In The God of Metaphysics. Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    This introductory chapter starts the discussion by some general remarks on what makes a belief system a religious one and the criteria for calling something ‘God’. There is a brief discussion of Descartes and of Pascal and the relation between the expressions ‘the Absolute’ and ‘God’ is briefly considered.
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    Interests and Rights: The Case against Animals.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1981 - Journal of Medical Ethics 7 (2):95-96.
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    Idealism contra IdealismA System of Pragmatic Idealism. Volume I. Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1994 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (2):409.
  45. Is pity the basis of ethics? : Nietzsche versus Schopenhauer.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2001 - In William Sweet (ed.), The bases of ethics. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press.
  46. Is Spinozism a religion?T. L. S. Sprigge - 1995 - Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 11:137-164.
     
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  47. James.T. L. S. Sprigge - 1995 - In Ted Honderich (ed.), The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Josiah Royce.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2006 - In The God of Metaphysics. Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    This chapter begins with a description of the life of Josiah Royce. It then discusses the following themes from Royce: proof of the existence of God, ethical theory, and the problem of evil in The Religious Aspect of Philosophy; the panpsychism of The Spirit of Modern Philosophy; the four conceptions of being in The World and the Individual; time and eternity and the worlds of description and acquaintance mainly in The Spirit of Modern Philosophy; and the notion of the beloved (...)
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    Kierkegaard and Hegel.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2005 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (4):771 – 778.
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    Kierkegaard and Hegelian Christianity.T. L. S. Sprigge - 2006 - In The God of Metaphysics. Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    This chapter discusses the position presented by Kierkegaard in his two related works: Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript, which were published under the pseudonym, Johannes Climacus. It is shown that in Fragments, Climacus merely tried out the idea of God incarnating himself to achieve mutual love with men in spite of their fallen state, but did not specify Christianity as proclaiming the realization of this idea. In Concluding Unscientific Postscript, the focus is more explicitly on Christianity. Kierkegaard’s most thorough (...)
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