British idealism
The British Idealism is a philosophical current in the last third of the 18th and the first third of the 19th century.
Representative
As the founder of the British idealism to Thomas Hill Green. Bernard Bosanquet, Richard Lewis Nettleship, William Wallace, Andrew Cecil Bradley and Arnold Toynbee were his pupils at Balliol College, Oxford. Probably also heard FH Bradley, who studied at University College, Oxford, in Green. Edward Caird was in 1860 and in 1893 at Balliol Collage. Harold Henry Joachim, who also studied at Balliol College, was a student of Nettleship. John Richardson Illingworth studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In Merton College Wallace, Joachim, FH Bradley and Taylor had.
In addition to this Oxford group, there was a second in Glasgow, where John Caird Edward Caird and studied and later taught. Among the students of Edward Caird include John Watson, Henry Jones, John Stuart Mackenzie, John MacCunn and John Henry Muirhead. MacCunn and Muirhad studied after their stay in Glasgow and at Balliol College.
In Edinburgh studied David George Ritchie, William Ritchie Sorley and Richard Burdon Haldane. Ritchie went to Balliol College, 1874-1878, Sorley to Cambridge and Haldane to Hermann Lotze to Göttingen.
At Trinity College, Cambridge, had Mackenzie, Sorley and McTaggart.
The unity of the world
The philosophy of the British idealists is mainly characterized by its view on the position of knowledge. They assume that all ideas are connected together to form a whole. The individual sciences, religion and poetry can not be separated from each other, but form a unit. Object of philosophy is the study of the whole. The various philosophical disciplines just take a different look at this whole thing.
Social Philosophy
Your social philosophy is determined by assuming that the individual can not be without the society that shapes the individual decisively, understood. The state should monitor not only the freedom, but help individuals to make the most of their lives. The law is not a law of nature, but should help to achieve the goals of the state. They also advocated the unity of theory and practice, ie the science should become involved in the political debates.
From the socio- philosophical point of the critique of liberalism and kontraktuailistischen on hedonism is highlighted. The British idealism was " long forgotten " due to the dominance of analytic philosophy, but " increased interest " experienced in recent years, because he may help establish a " social democratic liberalism."
Understanding the history of philosophy
The interpretation of the history of philosophy is influenced by the British idealists by the Hegelian understanding of history. She was interested in the history of philosophy less as a collection of ideas and it was not primarily a matter of how individual considerations can be refuted. But it went to them more about how the ideas of the past can be absorbed in one's own position, ie how the errors can be corrected so that their own ideas are promoted, which can direction of development can be found in the history of philosophy.