Hastings Rashdall (1858–1924) was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism. 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Utilitarianism (from the Latin utilis, useful) is a theory of ethics based on quantitative maximisation of some good for society or humanity. ...

After short tenures at St David's University College and University College, Durham, Rashdall was made a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and dedicates his main work, The Theory of Good and Evil, to the memory of his teachers Thomas Hill Green and Henry Sidgwick. The dedication is appropriate, for the particular version of utilitarianism put forward by Rashdall owes elements to both Green and Sidgwick. Whereas he holds that the concepts of good and value are logically prior to that of right, he gives right a more than instrumental significance. His idea of good owes more to Green than to the hedonistic utilitarians. 'The ideal of human life is not the mere juxtaposition of distinct goods, but a whole in which each good is made different by the presence of others.' Rashdall has been unfairly eclipsed as a moral philosopher by G. E. Moore. University of Wales, Lampeter Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan   University of Wales, Lampeter (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) is a university in Lampeter, Wales, the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, and the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. ... University College, commonly known as Castle, is a college of the University of Durham in England. ... New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Thomas Hill Green (April 7, 1836 - March 26, 1882) was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement. ... Henry Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (May 31, 1838–August 28, 1900) was an English philosopher. ... George Edward Moore George Edward Moore, also known as G.E. Moore, (November 4, 1873 - October 24, 1958) was a distinguished and hugely influential English philosopher who was educated and taught at the University of Cambridge. ...