He was a leading British philosopher and political figure and founder of the school of British Idealism. He pioneered in questioning the traditional liberal antithesis between the state and the individual. Green's lectures delivered in Oxford in 1879: "Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation" and "Prologema to Ethics" are the beginning of the transformation of English liberalism in a social liberal direction. Like all the British idealists, he was influenced by the metaphysical historicism of G.W.F. Hegel. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
He was a leading British philosopher and political figure and founder of the school of British Idealism. He pioneered in questioning the traditional liberal antithesis between the state and the individual. Green's lectures delivered in Oxford in 1879: "Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation" and "Prologema to Ethics" are the beginning of the transformation of English liberalism in a social liberal direction. Like all the British idealists, he was influenced by the metaphysical historicism of G.W.F. Hegel. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
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