T. H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy

by Maria Dimova-Cookson (Editor), William J. Mander (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191533938
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	502 KB

About the Author

University College London

Harris Manchester College, Oxford University

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, M. Dimova-Cookson and W. J. ManderI. Ethics2. Self-realization and the common good: themes in T. H. Green, David Brink3. The idealist conception of a person's good, John Skorupski4. Metaphysics and ethics in the philosophy of T. H. Green, Andrew Vincent5. Green's criticism of the British Moralists, T. H. IrwinII. Metaphysics6. Green's eternal consciousness, Peter Nicholson7. Green's Idealism and the metaphysics of ethics, Leslie Armour8. In defence of the eternal consciousness, William ManderIII. Political Philosophy9. The rights recognition thesis: defending and extending Green, Gerald Gaus10. Unnatural rights: T. H. Green on rights and community, Avital Simhony11. Contesting the common good: T. H. Green and contemporary republicanism, Colin Tyler12. Resolving moral conflicts: British Idealist and contemporary liberal approaches to value pluralism and moral conduct, Maria Dimova-Cookson

Editorial Reviews

"An original and first-rate contribution to a growing body of scholarship on this important Victorian era British philosopher.... There is no denying that this volume makes the best overall case for why we should take the philosophy of Thomas Hill Green seriously. I strongly recommend this book."—Derrick Darby, Ethics

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