Selves and Their Good (with note)

Pale blue cloth 12mo, 73 (3) pp. Very Good+ with sunning to the top and bottom edges of the cloth. In a Very Good dust jacket with sunning to spine, light, soil and discoloration to panels. Rear flap folded but intact. Loose note, "With kind regards, H. M. W. 27.ii 36" laid in, penned on Bristol College, Cambridge letterhead, where Dr Wodehouse was Mistress from 1931-1942. Dr Helen Wodehouse was a British philosopher and the first woman to hold a professorial chair at the University of Bristol, where she led the merger of the men's and women's departments of Education in 1925. At the time of her death in 1964, she remained the only woman to have held a chair at the University, which subsequently named the School of Education after her.

Jacket summary: The author discusses the meaning of a man's "own" good; and of self-realization and self-transcendence; and the problem of an integral or common Good. The view taken is that selves should be pictured not as closed boxes of needs, but as foci for the needs of a situation, or of a world. Any flaw in the harmony is as likely to fall within the range of one person (through a clash in his interests) as to fall between one person and another. A short appendix deals with the relation of "ought" and "good."