Michael Oakeshott
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'''Michael Joseph Oakeshott''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an [[English philosopher]] and [[political theory|political theorist]] who wrote about [[philosophy of history]], [[philosophy of religion]], [[aesthetics]], [[philosophy of education]], and [[philosophy of law]]. | '''Michael Joseph Oakeshott''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an [[English philosopher]] and [[political theory|political theorist]] who wrote about [[philosophy of history]], [[philosophy of religion]], [[aesthetics]], [[philosophy of education]], and [[philosophy of law]]. | ||
- | He is the author of "[[On Being Conservative]]". | + | He is the author of "[[On Being Conservative]]" (1956). |
- | In his essay "On Being Conservative" (1956) (collected in ''[[Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays]]'' (London: Methuen, 1962), pp. 168–96 Oakeshott explained what he regarded as the conservative disposition: "To be conservative ... 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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Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of law.
He is the author of "On Being Conservative" (1956).
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