Was Bradley a conservative political philosopher

Vincent, Andrew 2009. Was Bradley a conservative political philosopher. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 25 (2) , pp. 197-222.

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Abstract

To what extent can F.H. Bradley be characterized as a conservative political philosopher? Peter Nicholson has taken critics to task for their significant errors in addressing this question; this is something I agree with. However, my argument is that there is more complexity around the issue than at first sight. Having outlined the critical responses to the question, the discussion turns to some of the biographical material on Bradley. It then provides a brief overview of the historical setting of the 1870s, when Bradley was composing Ethical Studies. The key argument which extracts Bradley from the conservative charge is his view of the nature of philosophy. This latter view is outlined, and the discussion then shifts gear to analyse the terminology of philosophy, political philosophy and ideology in the decade around the 1870s. In the final analysis, the basic contention is that the misrepresentations of Bradley’s work, as an overt philosopher of conservativism, derive largely from the period 1914–60, covering the two world wars, but combined fortuitously with significant shifts in the philosophical academy within Britain in the same period

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Publisher:	Imprint Academic
ISSN:	1744-9413
Date of Acceptance:	1 April 2019
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2024 15:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/164927

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