Works of Thomas Hill Green

by Green, Thomas Hill; Nettleship, R. L.

• ISBN13: 9781108036818
• ISBN10: 1108036813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-22
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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 Volume 2, published in 1886, consists of Green's unpublished lecture notes.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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant

The Critique of Pure Reason

The metaphysics of ethics

Lectures on Logic

The logic of the formal logicians

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

The grounds of political obligation

Spinoza

Hobbes

Locke

Rousseau

Sovereignty and the general will

Will, not force, is the basis of the state

Has the citizen rights against the state?

Private rights. The right to life and liberty

The right of the state over the individual in war

The right of the state to punish

The right of the state to promote morality

The right of the state in regard to property

The right of the state in regard to the family

Rights and virtues

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