1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821790803321

Titolo

T.H. Green : ethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy / / edited by Maria Dimova-Cookson and W.J. Mander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-90564-6

0-19-153393-9

1-4294-9121-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Dimova-CooksonMaria <1967->

ManderW. J

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Note on References; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; Part I. Ethics; 2. Self-Realization and the Common Good: Themes in T. H. Green; 3. Green and the Idealist Conception of a Person's Good; 4. Metaphysics and Ethics in the Philosophy of T. H. Green; 5. Green's Criticism of the British Moralists; Part II. Metaphysics; 6. Green's 'Eternal Consciousness'; 7. Green's Idealism and the Metaphysics of Ethics; 8. In Defence of the Eternal Consciousness; Part III. Political Philosophy; 9. The Rights Recognition Thesis: Defending and Extending Green

10. Rights that Bind: T. H. Green on Rights and Community11. Contesting the Common Good: T. H. Green and Contemporary Republicanism; 12. Resolving Moral Conflicts: British Idealist and Contemporary Liberal Approaches to Value Pluralism and Moral Conduct; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

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. - ;Recent years have seen a growth of interest in the great English idealist thinker T. H. Green (1836-82)