Abstract:

Thomas Hill Green insists that freedom is not a possession of an atomic individual, but a social agent's power to contribute towards self-realization and social common goodness.It can only be fulfilled through mutual influences between society and individual.On the one hand, society should and is able to promote individual freedom and social common goodness.On the other hand, individual should and is able to take part in the construction of social institutions.The individual value is still the ultimate value criterion of freedom.In his coordination of the relationship between social and individual, Green combines freedom with democracy and transforms the theory of negative freedom years before into positive, thus advancing the development of liberalism, which is helpful for us to reconsider the relationship between negative freedom and positive freedom.

Key words: T.H.Green, positive freedom, individual, society