ABSTRACT
I F a phrase be sought with which to sum upProfessor Green's general position in regard to life and its problems, it would be difficult to find one more fitting than Aristotle's ea-jmep evepyeia. Not in wisdom merely, or in potential capacity, but in actually living his life, does Green hold that true well-being for a man is to be found. To discover and to demonstrate in what true human well-being consists is the highest intellectual object for man, and is specially the aim which philosophy should set before itself; to realise this discovery in civic life is the one practical function of the good citizen. Thus Green's primary aim is Moral and Political Philosophy, of which the latter1 is
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only the application to facts of social life, under definite circumstances, of the truths arrived at by the former.
