Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

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Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (born September 8, 1864 in St Ive , Cornwall , England , † June 21, 1929 in Alençon , France ) was a British liberal politician and one of the theorists of modern liberalism.

Life

LT Hobhouse worked as an academic and journalist and was the first professor of sociology at a British university, the University of London . He was the founder of Britain's oldest sociological journal, The Sociological Review .

Hobhouse strengthened the "New Liberal" movement of the Liberal Party under the leadership of Asquith and Lloyd George at the turn of the century. He distinguished property for use and property for power and provided the theoretical justification for a redistribution of state pensions . That is why he plays an important role in the intellectual history of the Liberal Democrats.

His work also presents a positive vision of liberalism in which the purpose of freedom is to allow individuals to develop and is not good by itself. He said that coercion should not be avoided because we do not have an eye for the welfare of other people, but because coercion cannot improve their situation.

Hobhouse hoped that the Liberals could form a large, progressive coalition with the Social Democratic tendency in the Labor Party .

During the First World War, Hobhouse wrote a title polemical against his compatriot, the Hegel- oriented philosopher Bernard Bosanquet , "The Metaphysical Theory of the State" (1918), the Hegel's philosophy of the deification of the state responsible for the evil of the First World War made.

In 1925 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Works

  • Labor Movement (1893)
  • Theory of Knowledge: A Contribution to Some Problems of Logic and Metaphysics (1896)
  • Mind in Evolution (1901)
  • Democracy and Reaction (1905)
  • Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics (1906)
  • Liberalism (1911)
  • Social Evolution and Political Theory (1911)
  • Development and Purpose (1913)
  • The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples (1915)
  • The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism (1918)
  • The Rational Good: A Study in the Logic of Practice (1921)
  • The Elements of Social Justice (1922)
  • Social Development: Its Nature and Conditions (1924)
  • Sociology and Philosophy: A Centenary Collection of Essays and Articles (1966)

literature

  • Ralf Dahrendorf and Colin Crouch : Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf and Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1, 2nd edition, Enke, Stuttgart 1980, p. 181 ff.
  • Peter Hoeres : The war of the philosophers. German and British philosophy in the First World War. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004.
  • Stefan-Georg Schnorr: Liberalism between the 19th and 20th centuries. Reformulation of liberal political theory in Germany and England using the example of Friedrich Naumann and Leonard T. Hobhouse. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2079-6
  • Michael Freeden: Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny (1864-1929). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2006

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See entry at WBIS , which confuses the place of birth with St Ives . For the place of birth see p. 2 in the preface by Alan P. Grimes in Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse: Liberalism . Oxford University Press, 1964.
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British liberal politician and professor of sociology
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH St Ive , Cornwall , England
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1929
Place of death Alençon , France