Research Catalog

Title

T.H. Green's moral and political philosophy : a phenomenological perspective / Maria Dimova-Cookson.

Author

Dimova-Cookson, Maria, 1967-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

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Details

Description

xiii, 175 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "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."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Green, Thomas Hill, 1836-1882
• Phenomenology
• Ethics, Modern
• phenomenology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-172) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0333914457
• 9780333914458

LCCN

00069475

OCLC

• ocm45707688
• 45707688
• SCSB-1228381

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library