ABSTRACT
T. H. Green made his moral theory in spirited theoretical circumstances made by others and these circumstances were fundamentally utilitarian. Those who fashioned them were the great 19th-century English utilitarians like Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill and Henry Sidgwick. For Green, freedom and moral rights are necessary conditions for the development of each person's 'moral capacity'. If one is to develop personal 'moral capacity' at all, then one must 'exercise' this capacity 'freely'. Though the anti-utilitarian, Kantian features of Green's moral philosophy are well-known, there is little awareness of the extensive reservations which he nevertheless harboured towards Kantianism. Neither crude utilitarian nor inviolate Kantian, Green was nevertheless a consequentialist who enshrined moral 'self-satisfaction' on the altar of good. Green, as people are now beginning to see, was a consequentialist, but certainly not of the utilitarian variety. He advocated a consequentialism of self-realization.
