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271:. On the idealist view, humans are fundamentally social beings in a manner and to a degree not adequately recognized by Spencer and his followers, yet individual initiative and 'self-realisation' are also central to their accounts. The British Idealists did not, however, reify the State in the manner that Hegel allegedly did; Green in particular spoke of the individual as the sole locus of value and contended that the State's existence was justified only insofar as it contributed to the realization of value in the lives of individual persons. Figures, such as Green and Bosanquet were active in social reform, as well, 36: 93: 325:
was strongly influenced by Bradley, Bosanquet, and Green (and other British philosophers). Even this limited influence, though, petered out through the latter half of the twentieth century. However, from the 1990s on, there has been a significant revival in interest in these ideas, as evidenced by,
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as both the faculty by which the Absolute's structure is grasped and as that structure itself; and a fundamental unwillingness to accept a dichotomy between thought and object, reality consisting of thought-and-object together in a strongly coherent unity.
282:, who were educated in the British idealist tradition, turned against it. Moore in particular delivered what quickly came to be accepted as conclusive arguments against Idealism. In the late 1950s G. R. G. Mure, in his 199:
did much to bring awareness of German idealism to the English-speaking world, and his own contributions were also highly influential on British idealism. The movement was a reaction against the thinking of
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British idealism was influenced by Hegel at least in broad outline, and undeniably adopted some of Hegel's terminology and doctrines. Examples include not only the aforementioned Absolute, but also a
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was a philosophical movement that was influential in Britain from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The leading figures in the movement were
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Up until the early 1860s accurate translations of Hegel's works were not available in Britain. However, this situation changed in 1865 with the publication of
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British idealism was influential not only in Britain, but in philosophy throughout the British Empire as well as in East Asia. Philosophers such as
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for instance, by the founding of the Michael Oakeshott Association, and renewed attention to the work of Collingwood, Green, and Bosanquet.
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in China, drew on idealist metaphysics and political philosophy in developing their own idealist views. British idealism's influence in the
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On its political side, the British idealists were largely concerned to refute what they regarded as a brittle and "atomistic" form of
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An idiosyncratic account of English-language philosophy with an emphasis on idealism, later republished as
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was "a deep student of Hegel" who "was committed to Hegel's 'central ontological thesis' all his life."
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Colin Tyler, "'All history is the history of thought': competing British idealist historiographies."
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cast, as did that of a handful of his less famous contemporaries. The American rationalist
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British idealism was generally marked by several broad tendencies: a belief in an
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seem to have found no purchase whatsoever in their thought. On the other hand,
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28.3 (2020): 573-593; focus on T.H. Green, Edward Caird, and F.H. Bradley.
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The hold of British idealism in the United Kingdom weakened when
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The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of British Idealism
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Weiss, Frederick (July 1971), "Recent Work on Hegel",
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F. H. Bradley
absolute idealism
T. H. Green
F. H. Bradley
Bernard Bosanquet
J. H. Muirhead
J. M. E. McTaggart
H. H. Joachim
A. E. Taylor
R. G. Collingwood
G. R. G. Mure
G. E. Moore
Bertrand Russell
analytic philosophy
Absolute
reason
German idealist
Immanuel Kant
G. W. F. Hegel
empiricism
Thomas Carlyle
John Locke
David Hume

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