-
9Positive freedom and freedom of contract : fairness, fairing well, and freedomIn John Christman (ed.), Positive Freedom: Past, Present, and Future, Cambridge University Press. 2021.A central charge against T. H. Green’s conception of positive freedom is that it confuses freedom and social justice. Rather than illuminating and elucidating the meaning of liberty, Green, so the criticism goes, under the disguise of a definition, recommends social ideals and principles such as social justice. The validity of such arguments is not the focus of my concern. I argue, instead, that contemporary efforts to defend social legislation, the welfare state, and socialism from the claims o…Read more
-
747Beyond binary discourses on liberty: Constant's modern liberty, rightly understoodHistory of European Ideas 48 (3): 196-213. 2022.ABSTRACT It is fruitless to interpret Constant's modern liberty from the binary perspective of either the negative/positive freedom opposition or the liberal/republican freedom opposition. Both oppositional perspectives reduce the relationally complex nature of modern liberty to one or another component of the relation. Such reduction inevitably results in an incomplete and, therefore, inadequate interpretation of Constant's modern liberty. Consequently, either of these binary frames of interpre…Read more
-
37MacCallum, Baldwin and Green on Freedom: One Concept, Two Conceptions, and One Complex ConceptionCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 25 (1): 101-128. 2019.Abstract This essay dethrones the negative-positive distinction, commonly put forward as the adequate account of Green’s conception of freedom, replacing it with an inner/outer account. On this account, rightly understood, Green’s freedom of self-realization is a complex conception that consists in the entwining together of distinctive human capacities (inner/internal) and just social institutions (outer/external). To unlock that complexity MacCallum’s single triadic concept of freedom is an e…Read more
-
10Introduction: Peter Nicholson: Achievements and LegacyCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 25 (1): 3-15. 2019.
-
9The ‘Social’ is Prior to the ‘Political’: Bosanquet RevisitedHegel Bulletin 34 (2): 245-268. 2013.The essay aims to reveal the priority of the ‘social’ over the ‘political’ in Bosanquet's thought by making more prominent what Bosanquet calls ‘social’. It is the domain of human connectedness and cooperation that occupies the space between the ‘political’, state action, and the personal, narrowly conceived individual. The centrality of the ‘social’ emerges against the backdrop of two rival interpretations of Bosanquet's relationship with British Idealism over state action. The one claims that …Read more
-
109Beyond Negative and Positive Freedom: T. H. Green's View of FreedomPolitical Theory 21 (1): 28-54. 1993.
-
Unnatural rights: T. H. Green on rights and communityIn Maria Dimova-Cookson & William J. Mander (eds.), T. H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy, Clarendon Press. 2006.
-
24Idealist organicism: beyond holism and individualismHistory of Political Thought 12 (3): 515-535. 1991.The object of this article is to show that the organic conception of society defended by British idealists goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of holistic and individualist conceptions of society
-
68Was T. H. Green a Utilitarian?Utilitas 7 (1): 121-144. 1995.Was Green a utilitarian? At least two studies suggest that he was, at least in some sense. One claim is inspired by Macpherson's association of nineteenth-century liberalism with utilitarianism. Drawing on this argument, Greengarten and Hansen claim that Green's departure from utilitarianism is only partial. His commitment to capitalism indicates a subscription to utilitarianism since the latter is the justificatory force of capitalist institutions.
-
Maria Dimova-Cookson, TH Green's Moral and Political Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (3): 173-176. 2003.
-
24T.H. Green Was No Liberal Consequentialist of Any KindCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 15 (2): 7-27. 2009.
-
32Berlin and Bosanquet: True self and positive freedomEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (1): 3-21. 2016.Is the Idealist conception of positive freedom doomed as politically dangerous? Decidedly yes, Berlin famously argues. The danger lies with manipulating positive freedom into a political tool of tyranny, coercing individuals to be free. The vehicle of manipulation is a conception of a divided self that underpins positive freedom. For, Berlin argues, conceptions of freedom derive directly from views of what constitutes a self. He cites the British Idealists as evidence for his criticism. The case…Read more
-
Maria Dimova-Cookson, T.H. Green's Moral and Political Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 23 173-176. 2003.
-
24Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882) and the Philosophical Foundations of Politics (review)Bradley Studies 5 (1): 87-106. 1999.A quotation from Hegel serves as a motif of Tyler’s book: ‘The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees positive merit in everything.’ It is a chief merit of Tyler’s book that, though he pursues an internal critique of Green’s philosophy, its aim is not simply to find faults, but, importantly, to uncover the ‘positive merit’ in Green’s philosophy. For, as Tyler correctly holds, ‘there is much to be gained from a return to the serious study of Green’s writings.’ And there is m…Read more
-
1Green, th theory of the morally justified societyHistory of Political Thought 10 (3): 481-498. 1989.
-
Rights that bind : T.h. Green on rights and communityIn Maria Dimova-Cookson & W. J. Mander (eds.), T.H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2006.
Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |