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a phenomenological perspective

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T.H. Green's moral and political philosophy

a phenomenological perspective

"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.

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Palgrave
Language
English
Pages
175

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Table of Contents

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?
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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.

Edition Notes

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

Published in
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
128/.4/092
Library of Congress
JC223.G8 T5 2001, JC11-607B65JA1-92JA8

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 175 p. ;
Number of pages
175

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6796985M
Internet Archive
thgreensmoralpol00dimo
ISBN 10
0333914457
LCCN
00069475
OCLC/WorldCat
45707688
Goodreads
3939080

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