Bøker av L. T. Hobhouse

The Theory of Knowledge - A contribution to some problems of logic and metaphysics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

In Liberalism, L. T. Hobhouse explains the philosophy of what he calls ¿liberal socialism.¿ Liberalism, as Hobhouse defines it, is the freedom from coercion. Crucially, this means freedom not only from government coercion, but from all forms of coercion, including economic coercion. It¿s important that everyone is free to grow and develop their own individuality within society, but the government has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that one individual¿s freedom is not used to limit the freedom of another.The socialist aspect of the philosophy is the belief that people are not purely self-serving and are capable of voluntarily exercising restraint when needed in order to help society flourish. Viewed through this lens, liberty and equality are not in competition, but rather go hand in hand. In a liberal socialist society, ¿any common life based on the avoidable suffering even of one of those who partake in it is a life not of harmony, but of discord.¿Tracing the history of the idea of liberalism, from pre-liberal societies, to the philosophies forged in the French and American revolutions, to the concept of socialism expounded by John Stuart Mill, Hobhouse defends the progress of liberalism, while asking what the future of liberalism should look like.

Liberalism, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Suitable for modern sociologists, this title presents the author's theories and commentaries upon social development.

Deals with the social application of ethical principles for the common good. This book argues that the social ideal is to be sought not in the faultless unchanging system of an institutional Utopia, but in the love of a spiritual life with its unfailing system of harmonious growth unconfined.

Presents a series of five key lectures, first delivered at the London School of Economics in the autumn of 1917. This title outlines the author's theories on social investigation, freedom, law and the will of the state.

This 1994 edition of Hobhouse's classic Liberalism, which includes a number of his other contemporaneous writings, provides a valuable introduction to the political philosophy of one of the most important British liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.