The Social Philosophy of English Idealism

A. J. M. Milne

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000362879
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophical Criticism

At the turn of the century Idealism was perhaps the leading school of philosophy in the English-speaking world. By the 1960s the situation was very different. There had occurred during the previous two generations what has been described as 'a revolution in philosophy', one consequence of which had been the almost total eclipse of Idealism. Originally published in 1962, this book is a critical study of certain aspects of the work of four Idealist philosophers: F. H. Bradley, T. H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet and Josiah Royce. It deals mainly with their social philosophy, but some consideration is also given to their metaphysics. It is the thesis of this book that there is a valid and significant form of Idealism to be found in the work of these philosophers, but that they did not succeed in developing it fully and consistently.

Appendix 1
Sources of Quotations in Text

In the following table the numbers in brackets refer to those in the text after each quotation. The reader who follows up these quotations to their sources will find that here and there I have made minor alterations in punctuation. This has been done partly in order to incorporate a particular passage more smoothly into my own text and partly in the interests of greater intelligibility when the original punctuation has left something to be desired in this respect.

CHAPTER II. All Quotations in this Chapter are from F. H. Bradley’s Ethical Studies, second edition.

A. sub-section	1.	(1) p. 5 (2) p. 11. (3) p. 36. (4) p. 38. (5) p. 39.
	2.	(1) p. 65. (2) p. 65. (3) p. 65. (4) p. 69. (5) p. 69. (6) p. 70. (7) p. 77. (8) p. 78.
B. sub-section	1.	(1) p. 163. (2) p. 166. (3) p. 166. (4) p. 166. (5) p. 174. (6) p. 187.
	2.	(1) p. 190. (2) p. 192. (3) p. 192
	3.	(1) p. 217. (2) p. 222. (3) p. 223. (4) p. 223.
C. sub-section	1.	(1) p. 219. (2) p. 220. (3) p. 220. (4) p. 220. (5) p. 220. (6) p. 221.
	2.	(1) p. 224. (2) p. 225. (3) p. 225. (4) p. 225. (5) p. 226. (6) p. 226. (7) p. 226.
	3.	(1) p. 233. (2) p. 233. (3) p. 233. (4) p. 313. (5) p. 313.
D. sub-section	1.	(1) p. 314. (2) p. 314. (3) p. 314. (4) p. 315. (5) p. 316. (6) p. 319. (7) p. 320. (8) p. 320. (9) p. 321. (10) p. 328.
	2.	(1) p. 333. (2) p. 333. (3) p. 333. (4) p. 334. (5) p. 334.

CHAPTER III. All quotations except those in section C, subsection 4, from T. H. Green’s Prolegomena to Ethics.

A. sub-section	1.	(1) p. 12. (2) p. 12.
	2.	(1) p. 50. (2) p. 52. (3) p. 52. (4) p. 37. (5) p. 21 (6) p. 74. (7) p. 74. (8) p. 58. (9) p. 59.
	4.	(1) p. 80. (2) p. 80.
	5.	(1) p. 98. (2) p. 98.
	6.	(1) p. 151. (2) p. 151.
B. sub-section	1.	(1) p. 103. (2) p. 106. (3) p. 195. (4) p. 256.
	2.	(1) p. 210. (2) p. 218. (3) p. 218. (4) p. 210. (5) p. 271.
	3.	(1) p. 242. (2) p. 287.
	4.	(1) p. 80. (2) p. 80.
	5.	(1) p. 98. (2) p. 98.
	6.	(1) p. 151. (2) p. 151.
C. sub-section	1.	(1) p. 346. (2) p. 346. (3) p. 346. (4) p. 350. (5) p. 351. (6) p. 351. (7) p. 351.
	2.	(1) p. 352. (2) p. 352.
	3.	(1) p. 373. (2) p. 373. (3) Ρ 374. (4) Ρ. 374. (5) p. 376. (6) p. 394.
	4.	Quotations from T. H. Green’s Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, 1941 edition, (1) p. 3. (2) p. 3. (3) p. 3. (4) p. 2.

CHAPTER IV. ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• I. The Concrete Universal
• II. F. H. Bradley’s Theory of Morality
• III. T. H. Green’s Theory of Morality
• IV. T. H. Green’s Political Philosophy
• V. The Theory of the Absolute F. H. Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet
• VI. Humanistic Idealism
• VII. Bernard Bosanquet’s Political Philosophy
• VIII. The Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics of Josiah Royce
• Appendix 1: Sources of quotations in the text
• Appendix 2: Selected bibliography in Idealist philosophy