Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings

Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings by Green, Thomas Hill. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521278102.

This book contains the political writing of T. H. Green and selections from those of his ethical writings which bear on his political philosophy. Greens 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extracts from Greens lectures on the English Revolution and from the Prolegomena to Ethics, and a number of previously unpublished essays and notes.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 Greens manuscripts, held in Balliol College. The editors have provided a list of variants, full notes and an introductory essay on the importance of Greens form of revitalised liberalism. The volume will be a valuable sourcebook for students of Greens thought and the history of nineteenth-century liberalism.