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1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages) |
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List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Green's Transcendental Theory of Human Practice -- Green's Phenomenological Moral Theory -- Green's Theory of the Common Good -- Positive and Negative Freedom: Green's Contribution to the Debate -- Rights in Green's Political Theory: Universal or Historical? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Green's view of the method of moral philosophy -- 2. Husserl's critique of the sciences -- 3. Linking the phenomenological reduction to a theory of -- human practice -- 4. Applying the phenomenological reduction to moral -- philosophy -- 1 Green's Transcendental Theory of Human Practice -- 1.1 Defining the term 'transcendental' -- 1.2 Green's metaphysics of knowledge -- 1.3 Hume's discovery of the 'world of spirit' -- 1.4 The spiritual principle that underpins human -- practice, or Green's theory of the will -- 1.5 Why Green's principle is in fact a transcendental rule -- 1.6 Applications of Green's transcendental rule -- 1.7 The difference between transcendentalism and spiritual -- determinism -- 2 Green's Phenomenological Moral Theory -- 2.1 Similarities between Green and the utilitarians -- 2.2 The difference between the pursuit of pleasure -- and the pursuit of the moral good -- 2.3 The moral ideal as the perfection of man -- 2.4 The phenomenological circle -- 2.5 The change of perspective -- 2.6 Between deontology and consequentialism -- 2.7 Is it the individual or her perfection that is an end in -- itself? -- vii -- 2.8 Moral vulnerability and negative morality -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 3 Green's Theory of the Common Good -- 3.1 Outlining the two perspectives in defining the -- common good -- 3.2 The common good as personal moral growth -- 3.3 The salvation argument: criticisms and defence -- 3.4 The unique position of the self -- 3.5 The loss of the concept of the ordinary good -- 3.6 The common good in the second sense: as a society of -- equals -- 3.7 Conclusion -- 4 Positive and Negative Freedom: Green's -- Contribution to the Debate -- 4.1 Juristic freedom and moral freedom -- 4.2 Positive freedom and negative freedom -- 4.3 Which freedom is more important? -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Rights in Green's Political Theory: Universal or -- Historical? -- 5.1 The concept of social recognition -- 5.2 Practical social recognition -- 5.3 Metaphysical social recognition -- 5.4 Green's theories of human agency and morality: -- need as a sufficient justification of rights -- 5.5 Rights as an expression of negative freedom: -- negative and positive morality -- 5.6 Rights -- universal or historical? -- 5.7 Conclusion: reconciling the two lines of thought in -- Green's philosophy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a new phenomenological, interpretation of T.H. Green's (1836-1882) philosophy and political theory. By analysing in turn his theory of human practice, the moral idea, the common good, freedom and human rights, the book demonstrates that Green falls into the same tradition as Kantian and Husserlian transcendentalism. The book offers a reconstruction of Green's idealism and demonstrates its potential to address contemporary debates on the nature of moral agency, positive and negative freedom and on justifying human rights |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Green, Thomas Hill, 1836-1882.
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| SUBJECT |
Green, Thomas Hill, 1836-1882 fast |
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Ethics, Modern.
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Phenomenology.
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phenomenology.
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Political science & theory.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Politics and Government.
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Ethics, Modern
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Phenomenology
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230509542 |
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0230509541 |
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