aBritish Idealism is represented by a small group of people, being T.H. Green (1836–1882) the pivotal figure and others including: Edward Craig (1835–1908), William Wallace (1843–1897), F.H. Bradley (1846–1924), Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923), Richard Burdon Haldane (1850–1928), Henry Jones (1852–1922), David G. Ritchie (1856–1903), Robin G. Collingwood (1889–1943) e Michael Joseph Oakeshott (1901–1990).
bThis paper is moreover based on: Hay1975; Henriques1979; Plant et al.1980; Vincent and Plant1984; Vincent1986 e1987; Brown1995; Boucher and Vincent2000; Fraser2003; nonchè a: Bosanquet1895 e1899; Helen Bosanquet1899; MacCunn1907; Beveridge1936.
cVincent and Plant1984, 2.
dMazza20082009.
eVincent and Plant1984; Vincent1986; Boucher and Vincent2000.
fMazza20082009.
gGreen, Works, I, 449. Quoted by MacCunn1907, 218.
hEven if with another intention Geddes uses the same term.
iGreen, Works, III, 4. “Green’s (and Hegel) argument, however, is that the Christian religion has introduced a principle of individualism and freedom which fragmented, particularly the unified civic world of the Greeks. This Greek civic world could never be fully recovered, although it could be integrated into something more developed. The recovery of an integrated community, which embodies all the key components of individual autonomy (introduced initially in the Christian perspective), is the central aim of Green and Hegel. … The Reformation introduced a new positive form of autonomous consciousness, present in the liberal Protestant citizen, which is, in fact, at the very metaphysical heart of both liberalism and the Christian perspective.” Boucher and Vincent2000, 35.
jMacCunn1907, 225.
kHerbert Samuel (1902) quoted by Vincent and Plant1984, 54–55.
lBoucher and Vincent2000, 9.
mVincent and Plant1984, 6.
nIbid., 182–183.
oMacIntyre1972.
pVincent and Plant1984, 21.
qGreen quoted by Vincent and Plant1984, 1.
rBoucher and Vincent2000, 10. Henry Jones, for example, thought that the most important work for the philosopher was to improve the condition of ordinary working people.
sIbid., 11.
tVincent and Plant1984, 86.
uBoucher and Vincent2000, 12.
vVincent and Plant1984, 67.
wVincent and Plant1984, 94. How can a collective answer to poverty be produced in a social system marked by a strong sense of individualism? Hegel regarded the problem as insoluble and saw poverty as the main ‘contradiction’ of modern society.
xIl settlement movement was established in London and Oxford in the ‘80s of the nineteenth hundred century. Well-off university students share settlement houses with poor people and help them to improve their condition and their education.
yVincent and Plant1984, 95.
zIbid., 33.
aaIbid., 82.
abBoucher and Vincent2000, 29.
acVincent and Plant1984, 29–30.
adIbid., 22.
aeIbid., 80–81.
afVincent and Plant1984, 100.
agBoucher and Vincent2000, 31.
ahGreen, Collected Works II; citato da Vincent and Plant 513; citato da Vincent and Plant1984, 67.
aiVincent and Plant1984, 67.
ajIbid., 30.
akQuoted by Vincent and Plant1984, 30.
alBosanquet1895, 12–13.
amIbid., 14.
anIbid., 27.
aoVincent and Plant1984, 70.
apBoucher and Vincent2000, 29.
aqJones1920, 89.
arVincent and Plant1984, 27.
asBoucher and Vincent2000, 10.
atIbid., 11.
auVincent and Plant1984, 34.
avIbid., 52–53.
awBoucher and Vincent2000, 12.
axIbid., 13.
ayVincent and Plant1984, 29.
azIbid., 163.
baBoucher and Vincent2000, 35.
bbMazza20082009.