Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists

Sweet William

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The British idealists of the late 19th and early 20th century are best known for their contributions to metaphysics, logic, and political philosophy. Yet they also made important contributions to social and public policy, social and moral philosophy and moral education, as shown by this volume. Their views are not only important in their own right, but also bear on contemporary discussion in public policy and applied ethics. Among the authors discussed are Green, Caird, Ritchie, Bradley, Bosanquet, Jones, McTaggart, Pringle-Pattison, Webb, Ward, Mackenzie, Hetherington, Muirhead, Collingwood and Oakeshott. The writings of idealist philosophers from Canada, South Africa, and India are also examined. Contributors include Avital Simhony, Darin Nesbitt, Carol A. Keene, Stamatoula Panagakou, David Boucher, Leslie Armour, Jan Olof Bengtsson, Thom Brooks, James Connelly, Philip MacEwen, Efraim Podoksik, Elizabeth Trott and William Sweet.

Sujets

• Politique
• British Isles
• Philosophie et théologie

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• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 17 mars 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781845405328
• Langue: English

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The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists
Edited by William Sweet
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Contributors
William Sweet is Professor of Philosophy at St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada). Among his books are Idealism and Rights (1997) and Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community (with H. Hart, 2009), and he is the editor of several collections of scholarly essays, including Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism (2007), The Philosophy of History: a re-examination (2004), Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2003), Philosophy, Culture and Pluralism (2002), and Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community (2001). He has also published an edition of philosophical lectures and remains of the Anglo-South African idealist, Arthur Ritchie Lord (3 vols., 2006, with Errol E. Harris), an edition of The Philosophical Theory of the State and Related Essays by Bernard Bosanquet (with Gerald F. Gaus, 2001), and edited The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet , 20 volumes (1999) and Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy (1883–1922) , 3 vols. (2003).
Leslie Armour is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology (Ottawa), and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He is author of “Infini Rien”: Pascal’s Wager and the Human Paradox (1993), Being and Idea: Developments of Some Themes in Spinoza and Hegel (1992); The Idea of Canada and the Crisis of Community (1981), The Faces of Reason: an essay on philosophy and culture in English Canada, 1850–1950 (1981, with Elizabeth Trott), The Conceptualization of the Inner Life (1980, with Edward T. Bartlett), Logic and Reality: an Investigation into the Idea of a Dialectical System (1972), The Concept of Truth (1969), and The Rational and the Real: an Essay in Metaphysics (1962). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Jan Olof Bengtsson teaches history of ideas at Lund University, Sweden. He received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2003 and is the author of The Worldview of Personalism: Origins and Early Development (2006). His work focuses in studies related to personalism in a broad intellectual , cultural, and historical context. He has published a Swedish translation , with an introduction, of Eric Voegelin’s Wissenschaft, Politik und Gnosis , and articles in Swedish, British, and American journals.
David Boucher is Professorial Fellow and Acting Head of School at the Cardiff School of European Studies at Cardiff University, and adjunct professor of international relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. The author of The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood (1989), as well as A Radical Hegelian: The Political Thought of Henry Jones (1993) and British Idealism and Political Theory (2000) (with Andrew Vincent ), he is Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre, Cardiff University, and Executive Editor of Collingwood and British Idealism Studies .
Thomas Brooks is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, and the Founding Editor of Journal of Moral Philosophy , an international journal of moral, political, and legal philosophy. He is the editor of Rousseau and Law (2005), The Legacy of John Rawls (2005, with Fabian Freyenhagen), and author of articles in the Journal of Applied Philosophy , the Journal of Social Philosophy , History of Political Thought , Utilitas , and other journals.
James Connelly is Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute of Applied Ethics at the University of Hull, UK. He has authored several studies, including Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood (2003), and edited a number of volumes, on the philosophy of R.G. Collingwood (e.g., An Essay on Philosophical Method by R.G. Collingwood , (second edition, 2005, with Giuseppina D’Oro) and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on R. G. Collingwood , 1996, with David Boucher and Tariq Modood), British idealism ( Aspects of Idealism , 2009, with S. Panagakou), environmental politics ( Politics and the Environment: from theory to practice , 1999, with Graham Smith), and on social policy ( Citizens, charters and consumers , 1993). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Collingwood Society.
Carol A. Keene is Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and a former Dean of its School of Humanities. She is editor of the five volume F. H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings (1999) and a co- editor of Responses to F.H. Bradley, A.S. Pringle-Pattison and J.M.E. McTaggart (2004, with William Sweet).
Philip MacEwen is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in cello and the University of Toronto in philosophy. He has done graduate studies in religious studies at Westminster Theological Seminary, in philosophy at York University, and in music at the University of London. Currently, he teaches philosophy and humanities at York University and is president of a music company, Simply Strings . He has published in the areas of environmental ethics, philosophy of religion, and the history of modern philosophy. He is the editor of Ethics, Metaphysics and Religion in the Thought of F. H. Bradley (1996).
Darin Nesbitt lectures in Political Science at Douglas College, New Westminster , British Columbia, Canada. He has published in Polity and Paideusis , and his PhD thesis was entitled “A Liberal Theory of Virtue and the Good: the moral and political thought of T.H. Green” (1997). His principal research interests are on late nineteenth-century British idealism, and examine topics such as individual rights, property rights, ethics, and democracy and education.
Stamatoula Panagakou is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus, and has taught at the Universities of York, Durham, Newcastle, and Manchester. She has published in a number of journals, including The British Journal of Politics & International Relations , Collingwood and British Idealism Studies , the British Journal for the History of Philosophy , and Bradley Studies , and has co-edited (with James Connelly) a collection of essays on British Idealism, entitled Aspects of Idealism (2009). She is a founding member of the British Idealism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
Efraim Podoksik is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott (2003) and has published in the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Avital Simhony is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Arizona State University. She is co-editor of The New Liberalism: reconciling liberty and community (2001, with D. Weinstein), and has contributed articles to History of Political Thought , Political Studies , Political Theory and Utilitas . Currently, she is completing a book on T.H. Green’s liberalism. Her research interests focus on the New Liberalism of T.H. Green and, more broadly, the liberal philosophical tradition with emphasis on the relationship between liberalism and the ideas of positive freedom , self-realization and the common good as well as liberalism and individualism.
Elizabeth Trott is Professor of Philosophy at the Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She is co-author (with Leslie Armour) of The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada, 1850–1950 (1981), co-editor (with Leslie Armour) of The Industrial Kingdom Of God by John Clark Murray (1981), and has published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Education and in Dialogue , as well as in collections on Philosophy and Culture and Philosophy after F.H. Bradley (1996) and The Canadian Encyclopedia .



Preface
Despite the renewal of scholarly interest in late 19th and early 20th century British idealism, little has been written on its moral philosophy, and nothing at all that covers the range of approaches to moral, social and political philosophy exemplified in the work of that school’s major figures. The present volume provides both an introduction to and a survey of work that is not only valuable in its own right, but increasingly relevant to contemporary debates in ethics and political thought.
I would like to record my thanks to a number of individuals, without whom this volume would have been much less than it is. Peter Nicholson, whose scholarly breadth and depth and meticulous attention to detail have long been an example to those working on British idealism, has been an invaluable source of suggestions and support throughout. I would also like to thank the Publisher of Imprint Academic, Keith Sutherland, and the Managing Editor, Anthony Freeman for their interest in, and patience through, what proved to be a very challenging project. I am grateful for the help of Marlo Burks and Heather Carson, who assisted in the copy-editing and in the preparation of the index. I wish to acknowledge as well a number of friends and colleagues for their continuing support and advice - among them, Leslie Armour, David Boucher, James Connelly, Louis Groarke, Paul Groarke, Errol Harris, Bill Mander, Stamatoula Panagakou, and Colin Tyler.
Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to C