T.H. Green's moral and political philosophy
Subtitle: a phenomenological perspective
By: Maria Dimova-Cookson.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Green, Thomas Hill, 1836-1882.; Ethics, Modern.; Phenomenology.
Description: "This book offers a new, phenomenological interpretation of T. H. Green's (1836-82) ethics and political theory and thus sheds a different light on Green's position in the history of philosophy and political thought.

By analysing in turn his theories of knowledge, human practice, moral behaviour, the common good, freedom and human rights, the book demonstrates that Green falls into the same tradition as Kantian and Husserlian trancendentalism and allies Green's moral philosophy with the insights of Husserl's phenomenology. One of the central philosophical themes is that of the 'phenomenological circle': the inevitability of employing two perspectives in defining moral action.

The book offers a reconstruction of Green's idealism and demonstrates its potential to address contemporary debates on positive and negative freedom and on justifying human rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1. Green's view of the method of moral philosophy; title: 2. Husserl's critique of the sciences; title: 3. Linking the phenomenological reduction to a theory of; title: human practice; title: 4. Applying the phenomenological reduction to moral; title: philosophy; title: 1 Green's Transcendental Theory of Human Practice; title: 1.1 Defining the term 'transcendental'; title: 1.2 Green's metaphysics of knowledge; title: 1.3 Hume's discovery of the 'world of spirit'; title: 1.4 The spiritual principle that underpins human; title: practice, or Green's theory of the will; title: 1.5 Why Green's principle is in fact a transcendental rule; title: 1.6 Applications of Green's transcendental rule; title: 1.7 The difference between transcendentalism and spiritual; title: determinism; title: 2 Green's Phenomenological Moral Theory; title: 2.1 Similarities between Green and the utilitarians; title: 2.2 The difference between the pursuit of pleasure; title: and the pursuit of the moral good; title: 2.3 The moral ideal as the perfection of man; title: 2.4 The phenomenological circle; title: 2.5 The change of perspective; title: 2.6 Between deontology and consequentialism; title: 2.7 Is it the individual or her perfection that is an end in; title: itself?; title: vii; title: 2.8 Moral vulnerability and negative morality; title: 2.9 Conclusion; title: 3 Green's Theory of the Common Good; title: 3.1 Outlining the two perspectives in defining the; title: common good; title: 3.2 The common good as personal moral growth; title: 3.3 The salvation argument: criticisms and defence; title: 3.4 The unique position of the self; title: 3.5 The loss of the concept of the ordinary good; title: 3.6 The common good in the second sense: as a society of; title: equals; title: 3.7 Conclusion; title: 4 Positive and Negative Freedom: Green's; title: Contribution to the Debate; title: 4.1 Juristic freedom and moral freedom; title: 4.2 Positive freedom and negative freedom; title: 4.3 Which freedom is more important?; title: 4.4 Conclusion; title: 5 Rights in Green's Political Theory: Universal or; title: Historical?; title: 5.1 The concept of social recognition; title: 5.2 Practical social recognition; title: 5.3 Metaphysical social recognition; title: 5.4 Green's theories of human agency and morality:; title: need as a sufficient justification of rights; title: 5.5 Rights as an expression of negative freedom:; title: negative and positive morality; title: 5.6 Rights - universal or historical?; title: 5.7 Conclusion: reconciling the two lines of thought in; title: Green's philosophy; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.