Works of Thomas Hill Green

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

• ISBN13: 9781108036825
• ISBN10: 1108036821
• 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 Volume 2, published in 1886, consists of Green's unpublished lecture notes.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

Memoir

The force of circumstances

The influence of civilisation on genius

The value and influence of works of fiction in modern times

The philosophy of Aristotle

Popular philosophy in its relation to life

Review of E. Caird, Philosophy of Kant

Review of J. Caird, Introduction to the philosophy of religion

Review of J. Watson, Kant and his English critics

Fragment on immortality

Essay on Christian dogma

The conversion of Paul (extract from lectures on the Epistle to the Galatians)

Justification by faith (extract from lectures on the Epistle to the Romans)

The incarnation (extract from lectures on the Fourth Gospel)

Fragment of an address on Romans x.8, 'The word is nigh thee'

Address on I Corinthians v. 7,8, 'The witness of God'

Address on 2 Corinthians v.7, 'Faith'

Four lectures on the English Commonwealth

Lecture on 'Liberal legislation and freedom of contract'

Lecture on 'The grading of secondary schools'

Two lectures on 'The elementary school system of England'

Lecture on 'The work to be done by the new Oxford High School for Boys'

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