The British Idealists made significant and lasting contributions to the social and political thought of the nineteenth century.They contributed to the evolution naturlistic terms ,but instead had to be conceived as an evolving spiritual unity .In this respect the British Idealishts developed a distinctive view of the sate consstitutive of the individual,and they are commonly acknowledged as the forerunners of modern communitarian theory.Furthermore the Idealists developed theories of imperialism and internationa relations which at once addressed the issues current in political debate and proposed alternative ways of conceptualising British imperialism and the role of ethics in international relations.In his introduction ,David Boucher develops the themes illustracted in the writings of the British Idealists.……

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Idealist biographies

Select bibliography

A note on the texts

Evolution and society

1.Henry Jones,The Social Organism

2.Andrew Seth,Man’s Place in the Cosmos

3.Bernard Bosanquet Socialism and Natural Selection

4.D.G.Ritchie,Ethical Democracy;Evolution and Democracy

Ineividualisam,cillectivism and the general will

5.F.H.Bradley,Ideal Morality

6.Bernard Bosanquet,The Reality of the General Will

7.D.G.Ritchie,The Dangers of Democracy

9.Edward Caird,Individualism and Socialism

10.Hery Jones,The Coming of Socialism

The State and international relations

11.T.H.Green,The Right of the State Over the Individual in War

12.J.H.Muirhead, What Imperialism Means

13.John Watson,Greman Philosophy in relationto the War

14.Bernard Bosanquet,The Function of the Unity of Mandind

Index