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Comment: “Will, not force, is the basis of the state.” (T. H. Green)

  • UPSC 2002
  • Theories of the State

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The sentence heads Lecture G of Thomas Hill Green's Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation (delivered 1879–80, published 1886). It condenses idealist or positive liberalism: citizens obey because they recognise in the state a common good they themselves will, and coercion is its instrument, not its foundation. The thesis holds as an account of…

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