T. H. Green Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy [Hardcover]

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.

1. Introduction,M. Dimova-Cookson and W. J. Mander
I. Ethics
2. Self-realization and the common good: themes in T. H. Green,David Brink
3. The idealist conception of a person's good,John Skorupski
4. Metaphysics and ethics in the philosophy of T. H. Green,Andrew Vincent
5. Green's criticism of the British Moralists,T. H. Irwin
II. Metaphysics
6. Green's eternal consciousness,Peter Nicholson
7. Green's Idealism and the metaphysics of ethics,Leslie Armour
8. In defence of the eternal consciousness,William Mander
III. Political Philosophy
9. The rights recognition thesis: defending and extending Green,Gerald Gaus
10. Unnatural rights: T. H. Green on rights and community,Avital Simhony
11. Contesting the common good: T. H. Green and contemporary republicanism,Colin Tyler
12. Resolving moral conflicts: British Idealist and contemporary liberal approaches to value pluralism and moral conduct,Maria Dimova-Cookson

An original and first-rate contribution to a growing body of scholarship on this important Victorian era British philosopher.... There is no denying that this volume makes the best overall case for why we should take the philosophy of Thomas Hill Green seriously. I strongly recommend this book. --Derrick Darby,Ethics