The Skeptics Oakeshott

Author : S. Gerencser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299761
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skeptic's Oakeshott written by S. Gerencser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skeptic's Oakeshott poses the thesis that Michael Oakeshott's political philosophy is best understood from the vantage point of his skepticism and his intellectual affinity to Hobbes, whose work he commented on extensively. Margaret Thatcher based much of her political philosophy on Oakeshott's theories, but Gerencser shows how she widely misinterpreted his work. He argues persuasively against those who understand Oakeshott in terms of the influence of British idealism. Instead, Gerencser argues that Oakeshott adopts and softens Hobbes' idea of consent as the basis of political authority. By insisting that political authority has its source in acknowledgement and recognition, Oakeshott's philosophy opens the doors to democratic politics. The book ends with persuasive criticisms of Oakeshott, especially for thinking that politics offers only two alternatives, either the legitimacy of authority is universally recognized or civil war and secession are the result. Gerencser argues for the necessity of conflict and the contestation of the legitimacy of authority. He uses examples from Oakeshott's own work to show that civil disobedience is not only integral to democratic politics, but is required by Oakeshott's own understanding of the political.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105339
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism written by Michael Oakeshott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Oakeshott, the foremost British political philosopher of the twentieth century, died in 1990, leaving a substantial collection of unpublished material. Yale University Press is continuing to make available the best of these illuminating works. In this polished and hitherto unknown work, Oakeshott argues that modern politics was constituted out of a debate, persistent through centuries of European political experience down to our own day, over the question "What should governments do?" According to Oakeshott, two different answers have dominated our thought since the fifteenth century. One, exemplified by such thinkers as Rousseau and Marx, expresses a belief in the capacity of human beings to control, design, and monitor all aspects of social and political life, a belief fostered by the intoxicating increase in power available to governments in modern times. On the other hand, sceptics such as Montaigne, Pascal, and Hobbes argued that governments cannot, in principle, produce perfection and that we should prevent concentrations of power that may result in tyrannies that oppress the dignity of the human spirit. Oakeshott exposes the pitfalls of both positions and shows the value of a middle ground that incorporates scepticism with enough faith to avoid total quietism. Readers of Oakeshott will find here the thinking that lies behind his famous definition of politics as "the pursuit of intimations.".

Author : Eric S. Kos
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030830571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics written by Eric S. Kos and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection engages the work of Michael Oakeshott predominantly on the themes of his skepticism, politics, and aesthetics. An international set of authors engages and expands the analysis of Oakeshott’s writings in often neglected areas and topics and in ways that brings Oakeshott into conversation with a surprisingly diverse set of thinkers.

Author : Aryeh Botwinick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836956
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism written by Aryeh Botwinick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations. Instead, he embraced tradition and habit as the guides to moral and political life. In this book, Aryeh Botwinick presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Botwinick argues that, despite Oakeshott's pragmatic conservatism, his rejection of all-embracing intellectual projects made him a friend to liberal individualism and an ally of what would become postmodern antifoundationalism. Oakeshott's skepticism even extended paradoxically to skepticism about skepticism itself and is better described as a "generalized agnosticism." Properly conceived and translated, this agnosticism ultimately evolves into mysticism, which becomes a bridge linking philosophy and religion. Botwinick explains and develops this strategy of interpretation and then shows how it illuminates and unifies the diverse strands of Oakeshott's thought in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, political theory, philosophy of personal identity, philosophy of law, and philosophy of history.

Author : Steven Anthony Gerencser
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312223038
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skeptic's Oakeshott written by Steven Anthony Gerencser and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He uses examples from Oakeshott's own work to show that civil disobediance is not only integral to democratic politics, but is required by Oakeshort's own understanding of the political."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eric S. Kos
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030830551
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics written by Eric S. Kos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection engages the work of Michael Oakeshott predominantly on the themes of his skepticism, politics, and aesthetics. An international set of authors engages and expands the analysis of Oakeshott’s writings in often neglected areas and topics and in ways that brings Oakeshott into conversation with a surprisingly diverse set of thinkers.

Author : Elizabeth Campbell Corey
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265170
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics written by Elizabeth Campbell Corey and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Argues that Oakeshott's views on aesthetics, religion, and morality, which she places in the Augustinian tradition, are intimately linked to a creative moral personality that underlies his political theorizing. Also compares Oakeshott's Rationalism to Voegelin's concept of Gnosticism and considers both thinkers' treatment of Hobbes to delineate their philosophical differences"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul Franco
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271054077
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Michael Oakeshott written by Paul Franco and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of critical essays by leading scholars on British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. Essays cover all aspects of Oakeshott's thought, from his theory of knowledge and philosophies of history, religion, art, and education to his reflections on morality, politics, and law"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780631159209
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hobbes on Civil Association written by Michael Joseph Oakeshott and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendell John Coats
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739171623
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Character of Human Activity written by Wendell John Coats and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetic Character of Human Activity is a collection of essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explores the meaning of Oakeshott’s pregnant phrase, “the poetic character of human activity” by comparing and contrasting this idea with similar and opposing ones, in particular those of the Taoist thinker, Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and his Western interpreter, A.C. Graham. Oakeshott’s deep appreciation of the poetic and non-instrumental character of human activity led him to develop an interest in the works of Zhuangzi and Confucius. Comparison of shared themes between Oakeshott and these two Chinese thinkers facilitates appreciation of his elegant analytic style and his resort to use of metaphors and story-telling when conveying some of his most profound insights. The collection also contains essays contrasting Oakeshott’s idea of the “creative” in human experience with views of, among others, Plato, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. Oakeshott used the phrase “the poetic character of human activity” (arguably the animating center of his entire thought), to refer to the “creative” character of human experiential reality, that is, to the fact that the form (the how) and content (the what) of all human experience and activity arise simultaneously and fluidly, and can be separated only at the expense of theoretical coherence and practical skill. The various essays in this collection explore the meaning of this claim, and its ramifications for the proper role of critical intellect in especially philosophy, morality, learning, and governance. There is also some brief contrast of Oakeshott with John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Quentin Skinner.