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Philosophy of religion. Philosophy of history. Philosophy of politics. Notable ideas. Adverbial conditions. Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA ( / ˈoʊkʃɒt /; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote on the philosophies of history, religion, aesthetics, education, and law.
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Mar 8, 2016 · Michael Oakeshott. First published Tue Mar 8, 2016; substantive revision Thu Feb 1, 2024. Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) is often called a conservative thinker. But this label identifies only one aspect of his thought and invites misunderstanding because it is ambiguous.
May 6, 2024 · Michael Oakeshott was a British political theorist, philosopher, and educator whose work belongs to the philosophical tradition of objective idealism. He is regarded as an important and singular conservative thinker. In political theory, Oakeshott is best known for his critique of modern.
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Biography. British political philosopher Michael Joseph Oakeshott was born on December 11, 1901, in Chelsfield, Kent, one of three boys in the family of Frances and Joseph Oakeshott. In 1912 he was sent to St. George’s School in Harpenden, a progressive coeducational boarding school. There he met the young woman, Joyce Fricker, who would ...
Michael Oakeshott, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, is a philosopher’s philosopher. He had a unique point of view, and a coherent way of looking at life, clearly expressed in wonderfully elegant prose. Oakeshott was also utterly indifferent to fashion in academic, political and philosophical life, and pursued obscurity to a point of near public ...
Oct 8, 2014 · Michael Oakeshott as Philosopher: Beyond Politics, A Quest for Omniscience - Intercollegiate Studies Institute. October 8, 2014 By ISI Archive. Experience and Its Modes by Michael Oakeshott (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, paperback edition, 1985; originally published 1933).
POLITICAL THEORY. Thomas W. Smith. For Michael Oakeshott, as for Hobbes, doubt is the prime mover. Oakeshott's searching scepticism has made him one of the least ideologically-fettered and most original political thinkers of the twentieth century. One scholar calls him 'perhaps the greatest British political philosopher since John Stuart Mill —
