The die-hard image of Malthus the ogre has not completely disappeared yet. And yet, Malthus showed no less concern than Adam Smith for the labouring poor. In order to make full sense of such expression of concern and to appraise their relevance in Malthus's work, we need to know what moral...

John Locke, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Lord Shaftesbury, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Two Shaftesbury critics: Bernard Mandeville and John Brown -- Francis Hutcheson and the Hutcheson-Locke relation -- David Hume, utilitarian ethics, the moral sense and distributive...

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...