"The inspiration for Toynbee, as for a whole generation of social reformers, came from the Oxford philosopher Thomas Hill Green (1836–82). Green's reappraisal of the central tenets of Liberalism makes him the most important figure of this period... [I]n his attempt to revise traditional Liberal theories to meet new situations, Green broke with traditional English empiricism and adopted an idealist metaphysics. His adoption of idealism allowed Green to redefine the Liberal ideas of freedom and society in order to permit state action."
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Peter Weiler, The New Liberalism: Liberal Social Theory in Great Britain 1889–1914 (1982), p. 35
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T. H. Green
Thomas Hill Green (7 April 1836 – 26 March 1882), known as , was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the movement. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
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