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Walter Pater as Oxford Hegelian: Plato and Platonism and T. H. Green’s Prolegomena to Ethics
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 72, Number 3, July 2011
- pp. 437-459
- 10.1353/jhi.2011.0016
- Article
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Through an analysis of Walter Pater and T. H. Green’s closely related borrowings from Kant and Hegel, this article argues that Plato and Platonism, like Green’s Prolegomena, appropriates a Kantian epistemological critique, develops a Kantian ethical subject, and then moves beyond Kant’s autonomous subject towards a more Hegelian historical evolution of individual subject and state. This article also explores Pater’s idiosyncratic survey of Greek philosophy as an implicit alternative to Green’s moral philosophy