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And to do so requires us to refer to his much under-read book; Oakeshott's critique of rationalism, 'Rationalism in Politics and other essays'. In three words what the book is about is: pragmatism.
Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of 'reason' in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly 'scientific' or rationalistic principles that.
Rationalism in politics and other essays by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1991, Liberty Fund edition, in English - New and expanded ed.
Michael Oakeshott, in full Michael Joseph Oakeshott, (born December 11, 1901, Chelsfield, Kent, England—died December 18, 1990, Acton, Dorset), 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.
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays Quotes Showing 1-8 of 8 “To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”.
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