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Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings Thomas Hill Green

Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings By Thomas Hill Green

Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings by Thomas Hill Green


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This book contains the political writing of T. H. Green and selections from his ethical writings that bear on his political philosophy. The editors have provided full notes and an introductory essay. This volume will be a valuable sourcebook for students of Green's thought and the history of mine nineteenth-century liberalism.

Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings Summary

Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings by Thomas Hill Green

This book contains the political writing of T. H. Green and selections from those of his ethical writings which bear on his political philosophy. Green's best known work, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, is included in full, as are the essay on freedom and the lecture 'Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract'. There are also extracts from Green's lectures on the English Revolution and from the Prolegomena to Ethics, and a number of previously unpublished essays and notes. All the texts have been corrected against Green's manuscripts, held in Balliol College. The editors have provided a list of variants, full notes and an introductory essay on the importance of Green's form of revitalised liberalism. The volume will be a valuable sourcebook for students of Green's thought and the history of nineteenth-century liberalism.

Table of Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Lectures on the principles of political obligation; 2. Lecture on 'Liberal legislation and freedom of contract; 3. Four lectures on the English Revolution: selections; 4. On the different senses of 'freedom' as applied to will and to the moral progress of man; 5. Prolegomena to Ethics: selections; 6. Undergraduate essays; 7. Fragments on moral and political philosophy; Notes; Variants, Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9780521278102
9780521278102
0521278104
Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings by Thomas Hill Green
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1986-02-06
396
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