Edmund Gurney (1847 - 1888)
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Description: Brief summary of the life of the first negative utilitarian, by Derek Greatrex.
Negative utilitarianism : Edmund Gurney (1847 - 88) Dictionary of National Biography described Edmund Gurney in 1890 as a "philosophical writer". From a cynical point of view, he could be seen as a high-Victorian dilettante who hadn't the sense to know when he was well off; this would be unfair, though it holds a grain of truth. A friend of William James, Samuel Butler, George Eliot and many other intellectuals of his time, he had considerable talent and a subtle, sceptical intelligence, though he perhaps lacked the sheer guts of the reformer and the genius of the great artist or thinker.
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