ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to summarize the essentials of Green's theory of human experience. It says that it is an error in his view to suppose that there is anything in human experience which is given ready-made without having been categorized and interpreted by thought. Nor is it to deny that human experience presupposes and is developed out of this level. Green distinguishes, between perceptual and cognitive experience on the one hand, and practical experience as rational agents on the other. The chapter says that the new-born human infant embarks on human experience only when it begins to think. It follows that the concrete in classification and science is not individual things and events as such, but individual experiences which have as rational agents engaged in the work of classification and science. It reiterates that the first is devoted to an analysis and discussion of rational activity or, as Green calls it, 'deliberate action', without any specific reference to morality.
