Recent years have seen a growth of interest in the great English idealist thinker T. H. Green (1836-82) as philosophers have begun to overturn received opinions of his thought and to rediscover his original and important contributions to ethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy. This collection of essays by leading experts, all but one published here for the first time, introduces and critically examines his ideas both in their context and in their relevance to contemporary debates.
Author(s): Maria Dimova-Cookson, William J. Mander
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 336
Contents......Page 8
A Note on References......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 14
Part I. Ethics......Page 28
2. Self–Realization and the Common Good: Themes in T. H. Green......Page 30
3. Green and the Idealist Conception of a Person's Good......Page 60
4. Metaphysics and Ethics in the Philosophy of T. H. Green......Page 89
5. Green's Criticism of the British Moralists......Page 119
Part II. Metaphysics......Page 150
6. Green's 'Eternal Consciousness'......Page 152
7. Green's Idealism and the Metaphysics of Ethics......Page 173
8. In Defence of the Eternal Consciousness......Page 200
Part III. Political Philosophy......Page 220
9. The Rights Recognition Thesis: Defending and Extending Green......Page 222
10. Rights that Bind: T. H. Green on Rights and Community......Page 249
11. Contesting the Common Good: T. H. Green and Contemporary Republicanism......Page 275
12. Resolving Moral Conflicts: British Idealist and Contemporary Liberal Approaches to Value Pluralism and Moral Conduct......Page 305
D......Page 330
G......Page 331
M......Page 332
S......Page 333
W......Page 334
