The references are divided into primary sources, including both Green’s writings and other relevant historical texts, and secondary sources. The division between other primary historical sources and secondary sources is sometimes somewhat arbitrary. Primary sources are cited using short titles or abbreviations, as indicated, and secondary sources are cited by year of publication.

A. Primary Sources

A.1 Green’s Writings

This is a list of Green’s principal published and unpublished philosophical writings on which the present entry draws.

• Works of T.H. Green, 3 vols., Richard Lewis Nettleship (ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885–1888. Nettleship’s edition contains Green’s main philosophical publications (except the Prolegomena to Ethics), miscellaneous lectures, and Nettleship’s memoir of Green. (Scholar)
• [Works] Collected Works of T.H. Green, 5 vols., Peter P. Nicholson (ed.), Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1997. Cited as Works. The first three volumes of Nicholson’s edition reprint Nettleship’s edition, the fourth volume contains the 1883 edition of the Prolegomena to Ethics, and the fifth volume contains additional unpublished essays, lectures, and selected correspondence. (Scholar)
• 1874–75, The Philosophical Works of David Hume, 4 vols., T.H. Green and T.H. Grose (eds), London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Green wrote the introductions to Hume’s Treatise in the first and second volumes. Green’s introductions to the Treatise are reprinted in Works I, 1–371, and its main themes are incorporated into Book I of Green’s Prolegomena to Ethics. (Scholar)
• 1881, “Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract”. Originally published in 1881 and in Works III, 365–386. Cited as “Liberal Legislation.” (Scholar)
• 1882, “Can There Be a Natural Science of Man?” Mind, original series, 7(25): 1–29, 7(26): 161–185, 7(27): 321–348. This three-part article appeared in the year of Green’s death and was incorporated into Book I of the Prolegomena. [doi:10.1093/mind/os-vii.25.1, doi:10.1093/mind/os-VII.26.161, doi:10.1093/mind/os-VII.27.321] (Scholar)
• [PE] 1883, Prolegomena to Ethics, A.C. Bradley (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Cited as Prolegomena or PE. The Prolegomena was published posthumously in 1883. A.C. Bradley edited Green’s unfinished manuscript and supplied a useful analytical table of contents. The Prolegomena was out of print for many years. It is reprinted in Works IV. A recent edition is T.H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, edited by D. Brink, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003, which follows Bradley’s 1883 edition and contains a substantial introduction. (Scholar)
• Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant. Published posthumously in Works II, 1–155, and cited as Lectures on Kant. There are two lectures, one on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and one on Kant’s Metaphysics of Ethics.] (Scholar)
• “On the Different Senses of ‘Freedom’ as Applied to Will and the Moral Progress of Man”. Published posthumously in Works II, 308–333, and cited as “Freedom.” (Scholar)
• [LPPO] Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation. Published posthumously in Works II, 335–553, and cited as LPPO by section number.

More comprehensive bibliographies of Green’s published and unpublished writings can be found in Works V; Thomas 1987; and Tyler 2018.

A.2 Other Primary Sources

• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, T. Irwin (trans.), third edition, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2019.
• –––, Politics, in The Revised Oxford Translation of the Complete Works of Aristotle, 2 vols., J. Barnes (ed.), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• Bradley, F.H., 1876, Ethical Studies, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Second edition, revised, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. (Scholar)
• –––, 1893, Appearance and Reality, London: George Allen and Unwin. (Scholar)
• –––, 1914, Essays on Truth and Reality, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Butler, Joseph, 1726, Fifteen Sermons Preached at Rolls Chapel, London: J. and J. Knapton. Collected in Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel and, A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue, Walter Robert Matthews (ed.), G. Bell, 1914. Reprinted 1953. (Scholar)
• Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1794, Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre, Leipzig. Translated as The Science of Knowledge, P. Heath and J. Lachs (eds/trans), New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. (Scholar)
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1807, Phänomenologie des Geistes, Bamburg and Würzburg: Goebbardt. Translated as Phenomenology of Spirit, A. V. Miller (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. (Scholar)
• –––, 1821, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Berlin. Translated as Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Thomas Malcolm Knox (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. (Scholar)
• Hobbes, Thomas, 1651, Leviathan, London. Reprinted, E. Curley (ed.), Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1994. Cited by chapter and paragraph number. (Scholar)
• Hume, David, 1739–40, A Treatise of Human Nature, 3 volumes, London. Reprinted, P.H. Nidditch (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Cited as Treatise, by book, part, and section number. (Scholar)
• Kant, Immanuel, 1781/1787, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Riga. Translated as Critique of Pure Reason, N.K. Smith, New York: Macmillan, 1963. Citations to A/B editions. (Scholar)
• –––, 1785, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, Riga. Translated as Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals in his Practical Philosophy, 37–108. Cited as Groundwork, by volume (4) and page number in the Prussian Academy edition. (Scholar)
• –––, 1788, Kritik der praktischen Vernunft), Riga. Translated as Critique of Practical Reason in his Practical Philosophy, 133–272. Cited by volume (5) and page number in the Prussian Academy edition. (Scholar)
• –––, 1797, Die Metaphysik der Sitten, Königsberg. Translated as The Metaphysics of Morals in his Practical Philosophy, 353–604. Cited by volume (6) and page number in the Prussian Academy edition. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Practical Philosophy, Mary J. Gregor (ed./trans.), New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511813306 (Scholar)
• Locke, John, 1689, Two Treatises of Government, London. Reprinted, Peter Laslett (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Cited as Treatises, and by treatise, chapter, and section number. (Scholar)
• –––, 1690, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London. Reprinted, P.H. Nidditch (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Cited as Essay, by book, chapter, and section number. (Scholar)
• Mill, John Stuart, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, 33 volumes, John M. Robson (ed.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963–91.
• –––, 1859, On Liberty, London: John W. Parker & Son. Reprinted in Collected Works XVIII. (Scholar)
• –––, 1861, Utilitarianism, London: Parker, Son, and Bourn. Reprinted in Collected Works X. Cited by chapter and paragraph number and by page number in Collected Works. (Scholar)
• –––, 1861, Considerations on Representative Government, London: Parker, Son, and Bourn. Reprinted in Collected Works XIX. (Scholar)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1762, Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique, Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey. Translated as On the Social Contract in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings, ed. D. Cress, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987. Cited as Social Contract or SC and by book, chapter, and paragraph number. (Scholar)
• Sidgwick, Henry, 1874 [1907], The Methods of Ethics, London: Macmillan. Seventh edition, London: Macmillan, 1907. Cited as Methods; page numbers from the 1907 edition. (Scholar)
• –––, 1888, “The Kantian Conception of Free Will,” Mind, original series, 13(51): 405–412. Reprinted as an appendix to the 1907 edition of Methods. doi:10.1093/mind/os-xiii.51.405 (Scholar)
• –––, 1901, “The Philosophy of T. H. Green,” Mind, 10(1): 18–29. doi:10.1093/mind/x.1.18 (Scholar)
• –––, 1902, Lectures on the Ethics of T.H. Green, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and J. Martineau, London: Macmillan. Cited as Lectures. (Scholar)

B. Secondary Sources

• Armour, Leslie, 2006, “Green’s Idealism and the Metaphysics of Ethics,” in Dimova-Cookson and Mander 2006: 160–186. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.003.0007 (Scholar)
• Berlin, Isaiah, 1958, “Two Concepts of Liberty,” inaugural lecture, Oxford, 31 October, 1958, Oxford: Clarendon Press; reprinted in Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969, 118–172. (Scholar)
• Bosanquet, Bernard, 1899, The Philosophical Theory of the State, London: Macmillan; fouth edition, London: Macmillan, 1923. (Scholar)
• Brink, David O., 1997, “Self-Love and Altruism,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 14(1): 122–157. doi:10.1017/s0265052500001709 (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/0199266409.001.0001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “Self‐Realization and the Common Good: Themes in T. H. Green,” in Dimova-Cookson and Mander 2006: 17–46. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.003.0002 (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, Mill’s Progressive Principles, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672141.001.0001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “Eudaimonism and Cosmopolitan Concern,” in Virtue, Happiness, and Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, David O. Brink, Susan Sauvé Meyer, and Christopher Shields (eds.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, ch. 15, 270–292. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Normative Perfectionism and the Kantian Tradition,” Philosopher’s Imprint, 19: art. 45. [Brink 2019 available online] (Scholar)
• Cohen, Joshua, 2010, Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199581498.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Dimova-Cookson, Maria, 2001, T.H. Green’s Moral and Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Perspective, London: Palgrave. (Scholar)
• Dimova-Cookson, Maria and William J. Mander (eds.), 2006, T. H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Freeden, Michael, 1978, The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229612.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Gaus, Gerald F., 2006, “The Rights Recognition Thesis: Defending and Extending Green,” in Dimova-Cookson and Mander 2006: 209–235. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.003.0009 (Scholar)
• Hinton, Timothy, 2001, “The Perfectionist Liberalism of T.H. Green,” Social Theory and Practice, 27(3): 473–499. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract20012736 (Scholar)
• Hobhouse, L.T., 1911, Liberalism, London: Henry Holt. (Scholar)
• –––, 1918, The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism, London: Allen & Unwin. (Scholar)
• Hurka, Thomas, 1993, Perfectionism, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/0195101162.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Hylton, Peter, 1990, Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/019824018x.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Irwin, Terence H., 1984, “Morality and Personality: Kant and Green,” in Self and Nature in Kant’s Philosophy, Allen W. Wood (ed.), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 31–56. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, “Eminent Victorians and Greek Ethics: Sidgwick, Green, and Aristotle,” in Essays on Henry Sidgwick, Bart Schultz (ed.), New York: Cambridge University Press, 279–310. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139172363.012 (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “Green’s Criticism of the British Moralists,” in Dimova-Cookson and Mander 2006: 106–136. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.003.0005 (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, The Development of Ethics (Volume 3: From Kant to Rawls), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Mander, William J., 2006, “In Defence of the Eternal Consciousness,” in Dimova-Cookson and Mander 2006: 187–206. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.003.0008 (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, British Idealism: A History, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199559299.001.0001 (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2014, The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594474.001.0001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, Idealist Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198748892.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Martin, Rex, 2001, “T. H. Green on Individual Rights and the Common Good,” in Simhony and Weinstein 2001: 49–68. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511558337.003">10.1017/cbo9780511558337.003 (Scholar)
• Nettleship, Richard Lewis, 1885, “Memoir of T.H. Green,” in Works III, xi-clxi. (Scholar)
• Neuhouser, Frederick, 1990, Fichte’s Theory of Subjectivity, New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511624827 (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Nicholson, Peter, 1990, The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “Green’s ‘Eternal Consciousness’,” in Dimova-Cookson and Mander 2006: 139–159. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.003.0006 (Scholar)
• Quinton, Anthony M., 1971. “Absolute Idealism,” Dawes Hicks Lecture on Philosophy, read 27 October 1971, Proceedings of the British Academy, 57: 303–329. (Scholar)
• Richter, Melvin, 1964, The Politics of Conscience: T.H. Green and His Age, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Ritchie, D.G., 1891, The Principles of State Interference: Four Essays on the Political Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer, J.S. Mill, and T.H. Green, London: Swan Sonnenschein. (Scholar)
• Ross, W.D., 1930, The Right and the Good, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Simhony, Avital, 2001, “T. H. Green’s Complex Common Good: Between Liberalism and Communitarianism,” in Simhony and Weinstein 2001: 69–91. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511558337.004 (Scholar)
• Simhony, Avital and David Weinstein (eds.), 2001, The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511558337 (Scholar)
• Skorupski, John, 2006, “Green and the Idealist Conception of a Person’s Good,” in Dimova-Cookson and Mander 2006: 47–75. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271665.003.0003 (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, Being and Freedom: On Late Modern Ethics in Europe, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198716761.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Thomas, Geoffrey, 1987, The Moral Philosophy of T.H. Green, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Tyler, Colin, 2010, The Metaphysics of Self-Realisation and Freedom: Part 1 of The Liberal Socialism of Thomas Hill Green, Exeter: Imprint Academic. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, Bibliography of Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882), Working Paper Series: Number 3, Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism [Tyler 2018 available online]. (Scholar)
• Ward, Mary Augusta [Mrs. Humphry], 1888, Robert Elsmere, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)