Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom
Part 1 of The Liberal Socialism of Thomas Hill Green
Published on 22. March 2017
212 pages
978-1-84540-569-4 (ISBN)
Description
This first part of Colin Tyler's new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H. Green (1836-1882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism. Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to construct a bedrock of fundamental values and commitments that can define and give direction to the individual's most valuable potentials and talents. This book is not only a significant contribution to British idealist scholarship. It highlights also the enduring philosophical and ethical resources of a social democratic tradition that remains one of the world's most important social and political movements, and not least across Britain, Europe, North America, India and Australia. Dr Colin Tyler is Reader in Politics at the University of Hull and joint convenor of the Centre for British Idealism.
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The Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom
Part One of the Liberal Socialism of Thomas Hill Green
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Quotes
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- The Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom
- Introduction
- Aim and Scope of The Liberal Socialism of Thomas Hill Green
- Green and the Socialist Tradition
- Green's 'Liberal Socialism'
- Conclusion
- Green as a Systematic Philosopher
- Introduction
- Conventional Prejudices, 'Popular Philosophy' and Religion
- The Wider Intellectual Influences on Green
- Green's Philosophical System
- Conclusion
- The 'Metaphysics of Experience or Knowledge'
- Introduction
- The Methods and Formal Conditions for Gaining 'Experience or Knowledge'
- Experience and Sensations
- Related Objects
- Knowledge as Self-expression
- The Eternal Consciousness
- Individual Persons and the Eternal Consciousness
- Process of Individual Self-realisation
- Conclusion
- Distinctively Human Action andthe Unconscious
- Introduction
- The Disputes Over Green and the Will
- The 'Distinctively Human' and the 'Animal' in the Individual
- Emanation, Sublimation and the Unconscious
- Conclusion
- Freedom, Choice and Responsibility
- Introduction
- Formal Freedom and the Personal Good
- True Freedom
- Character as the Basis of Agency
- Green's Allegedly Self-interventionist Theory of Free Will
- 'Determinist'/'Indeterminist' Debate
- Spiritual Determinism and the Self-realisation of the Human Spirit
- The Problem of Moral Responsibility
- Conclusion
- Personality, Utilitarianism and the True Good
- Introduction
- A First Look at the Ethics of Duty and the Ethics of Flourishing
- Personal Judgement and the Failure of Utilitarian Ethics
- Personality and the True Good
- Some Objections Considered
- Culture, Consequentialism and Duty
- Introduction
- Cultural Contexts of Individual Personality
- A Second Look at the Ethics of Duty and the Ethics of Flourishing
- John Skorupski and G.E. Moore
- Green and Consequentialism
- Conclusion
- Review of the Argument so Far
- Back Matter
- Appendix
- Bibliography
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