Single Idea 23028

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism]

Full Idea

Political effort in all its highest forms is the expression of a belief in the reality of the social spirit as the deeper element in the individual.

Gist of Idea

The highest political efforts express our deeper social spirit

Source

report of T.H. Green (Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation [1882]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State I

Book Reference

Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.4


A Reaction

Although Green is rather literally spiritual, if we express it as a central aspect of human nature, this idea strikes me as correct. Writing in 2021, I am totally bewildered by the entire absence of any 'higher' forms of political expression.