The Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom : Part One of the Liberal Socialism of Thomas Hill Green

This first part of Colin Tyler's new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H.

Green (1836-1882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism.

Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to construct a bedrock of fundamental values and commitments that can define and give direction to the individual's most valuable potentials and talents.

This book is not only a significant contribution to British idealist scholarship.

It highlights also the enduring philosophical and ethical resources of a social democratic tradition that remains one of the world's most important social and political movements, and not least across Britain, Europe, North America, India and Australia.