Michael Oakeshott Flashcards
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Key works
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‘On Being Conservative’
‘The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism’
2
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Human nature
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‘Falliable not terrible’ but incapable of creating a perfect society, but could get pleasure and improvement through every day life.
Offered some optimism in his view of humanity in appreciation in the good things that exist rather than facing the frustration of chasing an ideal that could not be reached. Like Burke he favoured a society of local communities.
3
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Economy
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He believed that free markets needed to be moderated by the state as they were volatile.
4
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State
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Argued that the state’s job is to prevent bad not to create good. He said people;e should embrace routine and the states job was to prevent disaster.
5
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He promoted
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One nation conservatism
