David Brink presents a study of T. H. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics (1883), a classic of British idealism. Green develops a perfectionist ethical theory that brings together the best elements in the ancient and modern traditions and that provides the moral foundations for Green's own influential brand of liberalism. Brink's book situates the Prolegomena in its intellectual context, examines its main themes, and explains Green's enduring significance for the history of ethics and contemporary ethical theory.
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David O. Brink is in the Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego.
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This review is from: Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green (Lines of Thought) (Hardcover)
Brink does a good job in extracting the meat of the-best-of T.H. Green's thoughts, especially regarding Green's philosophy on the Common Good, on the regulations of one's strength of character, and rgarding self-realization. This book belongs in every ethicist's personal library, especially students of Green
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Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) was one of the most important and influential of the nineteenth-century British idealists at Oxford. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evaluative hedonism, perfectionist ethical theory, eudaimonist tradition, interpersonal balancing, extreme harmony, liberal essentials, own eudaimonia, perfectionist politics, perfectionist liberalism, juridical freedom, constitutive contribution, psychological hedonism, deliberative capacities, hedonistic utilitarianism, corporate agent, constructive reforms, deliberative powers, epistemic responsibility, transcendental freedom, higher pleasures, corporate agency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ethical Studies, New York, Cambridge University Press, New Liberalism, Clarendon Press, Liberal Party, Green's Prolegomena, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford University Press, Old Liberalism, Principles of Political Obligation, Prolegomena Green, System of Logic, Harvard University Press, Henry Sidgwick, Herbert Spencer, Perhaps Green, The Principles of State Interference New!
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Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) was one of the most important and influential of the nineteenth-century British idealists at Oxford. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evaluative hedonism, perfectionist ethical theory, eudaimonist tradition, interpersonal balancing, extreme harmony, liberal essentials, own eudaimonia, perfectionist politics, perfectionist liberalism, juridical freedom, constitutive contribution, psychological hedonism, deliberative capacities, hedonistic utilitarianism, corporate agent, constructive reforms, deliberative powers, epistemic responsibility, transcendental freedom, higher pleasures, corporate agency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ethical Studies, New York, Cambridge University Press, New Liberalism, Clarendon Press, Liberal Party, Green's Prolegomena, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford University Press, Old Liberalism, Principles of Political Obligation, Prolegomena Green, System of Logic, Harvard University Press, Henry Sidgwick, Herbert Spencer, Perhaps Green, The Principles of State Interference New!
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