 The main source for Bosanquet’s social and political philosophy is The Philosophical Theory of the State (1899 [1923; Sweet and Gaus (ed.) 2001]; See Sweet 1997b), though many of his ideas are developed in dozens of articles and essays which he wrote for professional academic journals, for publications of the Charity Organisation Society and for the popular press. Like many of his fellow idealists (notably T.H. Green, D.G. Ritchie, William Wallace, John Watson, and, to a lesser degree, F.H. Bradley). Bosanquet’s principal concern was to explain the basis of political authority and the state, the place of the citizen in society, and the nature, source and limits of human rights. The political theory that he developed is importantly related to his metaphysics and logic—particularly to such notions as the individual, the general will, “the best life”, society, and the state. In order to provide a coherent account of such issues, Bosanquet argued, one must abandon some of the assumptions of the liberal tradition—particularly those that reveal a commitment to ‘individualism’.