Od metafizyki do polityki. Zarys filozofii politycznej T. H. Greena

Thomas Hill Green was a philosopher, who thesis concerning metaphysical and theological matters combined with his political concepts in one single system of thought. The author attempts to reconstruct this link made between methapsysics, ethics and political philosophy in Green’s works. The main notion of this article occurs to be „eternal consciousness”, which determines the existence of our world of possible objective experience. People, as it’s „participants” are only „vehicles” used by it to gain some sort of self-realisation, selfknowledge, which it can achieve only through process of perfection of moral ideals. Since those ideals have a joint character – they regulate mutual relations between seperate individuals, personal good of each human being turns out to be good common with others’. The process of God’s selfrealization (Green seems to identify „eternal consciousness” with Christian God) is carried out through changes in social morality. Essential role is played here by institution of law. It’s „servant” to morality, it „secures” actual level of social conviction about the nature of good. By doing this, law makes further moral progress possible.