The ethical writings of the Oxford Idealists, T. H. Green and F. H. Bradley, reflect the influence of Kant and Hegel on English moral philosophy in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century.  To the extent that either draws on other sources it is to Aristotle that they turn rather than to British moral philosophers such as Butler, Hume or Reid; a point which is evident both from the fact that Green and Bradley offer a type of perfectionist account of morality that is articulated in terms of the concept of self-realization and from the appearance of Aristotle’s man of practical wisdom (the phronimos) in the fifth essay of Bradley’s Ethical Studies.  In addition, much of their attention was taken up with critical analyses of utilitarianism - the dominant ethical theory of the day - and the hedonism to which it was wedded, whether that view advanced the primacy of pleasure either in the form of a psychological account of motivation or as the felt state that right actions aim at maximizing.  Indeed, Bradley not only had to dispense with the claims of the older utilitarians, such as Bentham and Mill, but also had to face the new defense of utilitarianism advanced by Henry Sidgwick, who published his The Methods of Ethics (1874) virtually simultaneously with Bradley’s Ethical Studies (1876).  For a greater part of the Twentieth century Bradley’s critical attacks on hedonism and utilitarianism were considered to be about the best part of his book.  During this same period it was also usual to read Essay V (“My Station and Its Duties”) as expressing Bradley’s own position, and this was interpreted as derivative, relying heavily on Hegel’s view of society as an organism of interrelated persons.  It is later realized, largely because of Peter Nicholson’s studies of the moral and political philosophy of the British Idealists, that taking the perspective of “My Station” as final misses the relevance of the next essay, entitled “Ideal Morality,” in the dialectical progress of Bradley’s essays.