T.H. Green

(1836 –1882)

1. English political thinker of social liberalism tradition
2. British idealism movement – as a reaction against the thinking of John Locke, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, and other empiricists and utilitarian.
3. Hugely influenced by German idealism of Hegel and Kant
4. Ethics & morality in social life- moral philosophy: reason is source of morality/ethics
5. State to provide conditions for best moral/ethical conduct by individual

Book:

1. The Principles of Political Obligation - 1901

Bosanquet & Green: freedom of human agents consists in their having succeeded in realizing an ideal of themselves- a condition in which someone has succeeded in becoming something

Liberty:

1. It is a positive power of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying – Moral Freedom

Right:

1. "Rights are the conditions in which individuals are able to conceive and realize ‘the good’ for themselves and others"

State:

1. "A body of persons, recognized by each other as having rights, and possessing certain institutions for the maintenance of those rights"

Bernard Bosanquet

(1848 –1923) 

1. English philosopher and political thinker
2. Student of T.H. Green, influenced by Hegel, Kant, Rousseau, Plato; considered to be one of the most Hegelian of the British Idealists
3. Proponent of “Absolute Idealism”
4. Synthesized German and English Liberalism 
5. “state is the ethical idea”

Books:

1. The Philosophical Theory of The State - 1899
2. Psychology of the Moral Self - 1904

Bosanquet & Green: freedom of human agents consists in their having succeeded in realizing an ideal of themselves- a condition in which someone has succeeded in becoming something

A right is a claim recognized by society and enforced by the state