T H GREEN

Question 1

T H Green’s key work

Answer 1

Prolegomena to Ethics and lectures on the principles of political obligation

Question 2

What did T.H. Green believe?

Answer 2

believed that the state should enable and protect the social, political and economic environments in which individuals will have the best chance of acting according to their consciences

Question 3

According to Green what must the state be careful with?

Answer 3

the state must be careful when deciding which liberties to reduce and in which ways to reduce them

Question 4

According to Green when must the state intervene?

Answer 4

state should intervene only where there is a clear, proven and strong tendency of a liberty to curb the liberties of another

Question 5

Example of a time where the state should intervene

Answer 5

Slavery

Question 6

Summary of T H Green’s views

Answer 6

argued that if people were working 20 hours a day just to go home to a slum and risk dying of diseases, was it really freedom

Pushed positive freedom saying that the state needs to help, otherwise people wont be free

To be truly free people have to be free of hunger, poverty and poor health

Question 7

T H Greens view on the economy

Answer 7

Anti-capitalistic laissez faire, where the state should intervene to help the poor

Question 8

T H Greens view on the state

Answer 8

Must do more to enable society and people