T H Green

• what is human nature

  there should be no drinking

  individual has a private and public self and humans could only reach happiness by being able to flourish to their capacity in virtue
• what is their society

  favoured local community rather than national action. supported the extension of the franchise of women to university education
• what is the role of the state

  more positive role by freeing the poor from ignorance, diseases, poor quality housing

  over enthusiastic state could close down opportunities

  state should intervene where there was a clear proven and strong tendency to enslave the individual
• economy

  to free the poor
• what does freedom mean

  freedom shouldn't be understood in a negative way. individual is free the more they can rise above the narrow concerns of self interest
• Influenced by Friedrich Hegel who believed freedom can only be experienced through a reason and individuals can only become rational if the world im which they live in is rational too