It is claimed that Sidgwick caught the train to London regularly to discuss the affairs of the day with the prime minister. Abstracting from the consideration of who may happen to be PM, which contemporary philosophers would we like to see call regularly at Number 10? (The quotation is from David Solomon, Virtue Ethics: Radical or Routine?, in Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski (eds.), Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2003), page 63. Solomon gives as a source J B Schneewind, Sidgwicks Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy (1977), but does not give a page number. So I cannot give a source that is close to the claimed fact.)
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