Works of Thomas Hill Green

The writings, unpublished papers and lectures of one of England's most influential nineteenth-century philosophers, published 1885–8.

Thomas Hill Green (Author), R. L. Nettleship (Edited by)

9781108036818, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 December 2011

602 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.4 cm, 0.76 kg

Thomas Hill Green (1836–82) was one of the most influential English thinkers of his time, and he made significant contributions to the development of political liberalism. Much of his career was spent at Balliol College, Oxford: having begun as a student of Benjamin Jowett, he later acted effectively as his second-in-command at the college. Interested for his whole career in social questions, Green supported the temperance movement, the extension of the franchise, and the admission of women to university education. He became Whyte's professor of moral philosophy at Oxford in 1878, and his lectures had a lasting influence on a generation of students. Volume 2, published in 1886, consists of Green's unpublished lecture notes. The Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation drew criticism upon Nettleship, Green's pupil and editor, for his editorial interventions: the idea of 'common good' was thought to vary significantly here from Green's other writings.

Preface
Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant: 1. The Critique of Pure Reason
2. The metaphysics of ethics
Lectures on Logic: 1. The logic of the formal logicians
2. The logic of J. S. Mill
On the different senses of 'freedom' as applied to will and to the moral progress of man
Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation: 1. The grounds of political obligation
2. Spinoza
3. Hobbes
4. Locke
5. Rousseau
6. Sovereignty and the general will
7. Will, not force, is the basis of the state
8. Has the citizen rights against the state?
9. Private rights. The right to life and liberty
10. The right of the state over the individual in war
11. The right of the state to punish
12. The right of the state to promote morality
13. The right of the state in regard to property
14. The right of the state in regard to the family
15. Rights and virtues.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]