T. H. Green

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T. H. Green was a 19th-century British idealist philosopher whose ethical and political thought laid key foundations for modern liberalism’s emphasis on positive freedom and social welfare.

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instanceOf British idealist philosopher
ethicist
human
philosopher
political philosopher
academicDiscipline philosophy
causeOfDeath blood poisoning
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1836-04-07
dateOfDeath 1882-03-26
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford
Rugby School
employer University of Oxford
familyName Green
fieldOfWork liberal political theory
moral philosophy
fullName Thomas Hill Green
givenName Thomas
influenced Bernard Bosanquet
British social liberalism
John Dewey
L. T. Hobhouse
New Liberalism
R. H. Tawney
influencedBy Aristotle
Empiricism
surface form: British empiricism

G. W. F. Hegel
Immanuel Kant
knownFor defense of state intervention to promote welfare and moral development
foundational contributions to modern social liberalism
mainInterest ethics
metaphysics
political philosophy
movement British idealism
nationality British
notableIdea common good as basis of rights
positive freedom
state as enabler of individual self-realization
notableWork Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation
Prolegomena to Ethics
philosophicalSchool German idealism
surface form: absolute idealism
placeOfBirth Birkin, Yorkshire, England
placeOfDeath Oxford
surface form: Oxford, England
politicalAlignment liberalism
positionHeld White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford
surface form: Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford
religion Anglicanism
sexOrGender male
sibling Edward Green
spouse Charlotte Byron Symonds
taughtAt Balliol College, Oxford
workLocation Oxford

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New Liberalism influencedBy T. H. Green
L. T. Hobhouse influencedBy T. H. Green
Benjamin Jowett notableStudent T. H. Green