and political science" Malthus endorsed. This book reconstructs Malthus's meta-ethics, his normative ethics and his … applied ethics on such topics as population, poverty, sexuality and war and slavery. They show how Malthus's understanding of … for received moral rules, but these were meant to justify a rather traditional normative ethics, quite far from Benthamite …

1. Malthus the Utilitarian vs. Malthus the Christian moral thinker -- 2. Eighteenth-century Anglican ethics -- 3 …. Malthus's meta-ethics -- 4. Malthus's early normative ethics : a morality of liberty -- 5. Malthus's intermediate normative … ethics: a morality of prudence -- 6. Malthus's third normative ethics : a morality of humanity -- 7. Malthus's applied ethics …