Your complimentary articles

You’ve read all of your complimentary articles for this month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please

If you are a subscriber please sign in to your account.

To buy or renew a subscription please visit the Shop.

If you are a print subscriber you can contact us to create an online account.

Philosophical Haiku

Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882)

by Terence Green

A state of freedom
Through self-realisation
Live the ideal

Thomas Hill Green was an absolute idealist. For ordinary folk this makes him sound like he was a dreamer aiming for some lofty goal; but since he was a philosopher, it means he thought that reality was ultimately constituted by minds and their contents. So he was a dreamer, really. He was also, however, a pivotal figure in the history of liberalism.

…