Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Analytical Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought -- Idealism, Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism -- Kant and Hegel -- The Argument -- Conclusion -- Part 1 Consequentialist perfectionism -- Chapter 2 Between Kantianism and utilitarianism: T. H. Green -- Introduction -- Bradley -- Freedom, moral rights and self-realization -- Utilitarianism proper and improved utilitarianism -- Dispositional consequentialism and common good -- Retreat to the citadel of utilitarianism -- Green and Sidgwick -- Green, Kant and Kantian consequentialism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Between utilitarianism and perfectionism: L. T. Hobhouse -- Introduction -- Rational good and moral personality -- Common good and social mind -- The long shadow of utilitarianism -- Justice and prima-facie rights -- Moral rights and global purposes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Excursus: Green, Hobhouse and contemporary moral philosophy -- Introduction -- Desire and will -- Good will -- Pleasure and happiness -- Consequentialist perfectionism -- Conclusion -- Part 2 ''New utilitarianism'' -- Chapter 5 Vindicating utilitarianism: D. G. Ritchie -- Introduction -- Self-realization and happiness -- Rational selection -- Spencerian obsessions -- Natural rights -- Hume, Ritchie, Mackie and the invention of morality -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Utilitarian socialism: J. A. Hobson -- Introduction -- ''Old'' and ''new'' utilitarianism -- Organic welfare -- The political economy of ''new'' utilitarianism -- The authority of Ruskin -- Fact and value -- Community and informed preferences -- Reason and social utility -- Rights, positive freedom and equal opportunities -- Property rights -- Conclusion.

Chapter 7 Conclusion: intellectual history and the idolatry of conceptual dichotomies -- Forgetting and rediscovery -- Between liberalism and consequentialism -- Two aims restated -- Works cited -- Archives -- Books -- Articles and Essays -- Index.