The Service of the State (Classic Reprint): Four Lectures on the Political Teaching of T. H. Green: Four Lectures on the Political Teaching of T. H. Green (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This book delves into the contrasting perspectives on the relationship between the individual and the state prevalent during the 1870s. The author argues that the reigning philosophical view of the time, which emphasized mechanical action and reaction between impressions and ideas, led to a denial of both human freedom and the possibility of true knowledge. The author contends that a reconstruction of philosophical theory is necessary to justify the unity between human purpose and nature, thought and practice. They assert that human consciousness is a unifying, interpreting, and interpene-trating principle and that to know is to relate. They argue that the reality of relations that can exist only in and for a mind implies the reality of a universal mind by which they are created and maintained. The author concludes that the true nature of our life in the world can only be understood when we have learned to know the principle that sustains it, not after the flesh but after the spirit. This book offers a comprehensive and coherent theory of the nature of the state and its relation to the individual, with insights that remain applicable to current problems.

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