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Empirical nomocratic conception
- Oakeshott rejects a rational-purposive-progressive (or what he elsewhere calls telocratic) conception of history (“the operation of general laws”) in favor of an empirical nomocratic conception that relates events, actions, and beliefs to other things of the same kind.
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Mar 8, 2016 · But instead of surveying these topics, this entry will focus on his most important contributions to philosophy: his theory of modes, his criticism of rationalism, his argument that the key distinction in modern politics concerns the character and purpose of the state, and his philosophy of history. 1.
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This essay examines the relationship between Oakeshott's political thought and a seemingly distinct realm of discourse — history — a 'mode' of experience that intrigued Oakeshott throughout his life. In history Oakeshott found a coherent and highly-developed discipline whose precise logic served perhaps
Oakeshott’s later sceptical, ‘hermeneutic’, thought is also well represented by pieces such as ‘What is Political Theory?’ and ‘The Emergence of the History of Thought.’.
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Oakeshott distinguished the academic perspective on the past from the practical, in which the past is seen in terms of its relevance to our present and future. His insistence on the autonomy of history places him close to Collingwood , who also argued for the autonomy of historical knowledge.
Dec 1, 1996 · This essay examines the relationship between Oakeshott's political thought and a seemingly distinct realm of discourse -- history -- a ‘mode’ of experience that intrigued Oakeshott...
Timothy Fuller. Abstract: Michael Oakeshott, one of the most important political thinkers in the second. half of the twentieth century, has been understood to be a skeptical conservative, a romantic, a liberal individualist, an historian of political thought, a philosopher, a charismatic teacher.
Collingwood and Oakeshott reject a teleological conception of history, respecting the autonomy of historical understanding and the contingency of historical events. They distinguish history from philosophy though Collingwood aims to secure a rapprochement between the two subjects.
