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 worked on the commission which led to the Endowed Schools Act of 1869, and 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 of philosophy and political thought. This collection of Green's writings, published in three volumes from 1885 to 1888, was edited by R. L. Nettleship (1846–92), one of his Balliol students.
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 worked on the commission which led to the Endowed Schools Act of 1869, and 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 of philosophy and political thought. This collection of Green's writings, published in three volumes from 1885 to 1888, was edited by R. L. Nettleship (1846–92), one of his Balliol students.
Volume 1: Preface; Introductions to Hume's Treatise of Human Nature: 1. General introduction; 2. Introduction to the moral part of Hume's Treatise; Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. G. H. Lewes: their Application of the Doctrine of Evolution to Thought: 1. Mr. Spencer on the relation of subject and object; 2. Mr. Spencer on the independence of matter; 3. Mr. Lewes' account of experience; 4. Mr. Lewes' account of the 'social medium'; 5. An answer to Mr. Hodgson. Volume 2: 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. Volume 3: 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'.
The writings, unpublished papers and lectures of one of England's most influential nineteenth-century philosophers, published 1885–8.
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