عنوان

The politics of faith and the politics of scepticism /

(Number (ISBN

0300066252

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0300105339

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9780300066258

(Number (ISBN

9780300105339

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b759510

Title Proper

The politics of faith and the politics of scepticism /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael Oakeshott ; edited by Timothy Fuller.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Haven, Conn. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xx, 139 pages ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Series Title

Selected writings of Michael Oakeshott

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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the foremost British political philosopher of the twentieth century, died in 1990, leaving a substantial collection of unpublished material.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 emerged out of a debate, persistent through centuries of European political experience up to the present, on 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, Halifax and Hume argued that governments cannot, in principle, produce perfection, and that we should prevent concentrations of power which may result in tyrannies which 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'.

Political science-- Philosophy.

Political science.

Idées politiques.

Science politique-- Philosophie.

philosophie politique-- vingtieme siecle.

Political science-- Philosophy.

Political science.

Political science.

Politieke ideeën.

pouvoir politique.

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Edition

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Oakeshott, Michael,1901-1990.

Fuller, Timothy,1940-

Date of Transaction

20201204192127.0

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[Book]

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