Title: Walter Pater as Oxford Hegelian: Plato and Platonism and T. H. Green’s Prolegomena to Ethics
Abstract: Through an analysis of Walter Pater and T. H. Green’s closely related borrowings from Kant and Hegel, this article argues that Plato and Platonism, like Green’s Prolegomena, appropriates a Kantian epistemological critique, develops a Kantian ethical subject, and then moves beyond Kant’s autonomous subject towards a more Hegelian historical evolution of individual subject and state. This article also explores Pater’s idiosyncratic survey of Greek philosophy as an implicit alternative to Green’s moral philosophy