77 research outputs found
Rob Oakeshott: why I became an independent (Inside Story)
No full textIn this interview with Terry Lane, first broadcast on ABC Radio National's The National Interest in 2002, Rob Oakeshott discusses why he joined the Nationals, and why he left. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 25 August 2010
Os fundamentos da civilidade no pensamento conservador de Michel Oakeshott
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito.A presente tese investiga como é formulado o conceito de civilidade na obra de Michael Oakeshott. A primeira afirmação é de que a noção de civilidade não se resume a uma prática jurídica de simplesmente estabelecer os termos da associação civil, contrariando a interpretação tradicional dos comentadores de Oakeshott. Aponta-se a existência de outra dimensão, demasiado sutil, porém determinante, que não está vinculada com o dever de seguir normas. Trata-se de uma concepção estética da associação civil, que insinua um temperamento pelo qual os indivíduos desfrutam da vida civilizada. A civilidade é, aqui, comparada ao jogo, revelando um aspecto lúdico em oposição a qualquer visão manipulativa ou instrumental que se queira a ela atribuir. Neste aspecto, Oakeshott é profundamente influenciado pela obra Homo Ludens: A study of the Play-Element in culture, do historiador holandês Johan Huizinga. Desta forma, apresenta-se a tese de que a civilidade tem dois fundamentos na obra do autor: um jurídico e outro poético. De um lado, os indivíduos oakeshotteanos estão vinculados pelo reconhecimento da uma linguagem composta exclusivamente de regras. Por outro, entendem que a constituição dessas regras não sinaliza nenhuma intencionalidade ou racionalidade da associação civil: o império da civilidade assemelha-se a um jogo, cuja preocupação legítima dos agentes não reside nos resultados, mas sim na disposição de jogar. A tese insinua, por fim, que a teoria da associação civil na obra de Oakeshott é mais adequadamente compreendida como uma longa meditação entre essas duas faces da civilidade, sem nenhuma resolução clara sobre a definição de um projeto político em especial. Se a hipótese desta tese estiver correta, a associação civil constitui um modelo teórico apto a lidar com a dimensão do conflito e do antagonismo da política, de uma forma muito mais profunda do que seus críticos usualmente a consideram.This doctoral thesis investigates how it is formulated the concept of civility in the work of Michael Oakeshott. The first assertion is that the notion of civility is not just a legal practice of simply establish the terms of civil association, contrary to the traditional interpretation of commentators on Oakeshott. There is another dimension, too subtle, but crucial, which is not concerned to the duty to subscribe rules. It is an aesthetic of civil association, which insinuates a disposition to which individuals enjoy the civilized life. Civility is here compared to the game, revealing a playful aspect as opposed to any manipulative or instrumental vision. In this aspect, Oakeshott is profoundly influenced by the book Homo ludens: A study of the Play-Element in culture, written by Dutch historian Johan Huizinga. Therefore, it is presented the thesis that civility has two bases in the author#s work: a legal and other poetic. On the one hand, Oakeshottean civitas are joined by the recognition of a language composed exclusively of rules. On the other hand, they believe that the establishment of these rules does not indicates any intentionality or rationality of civil association: the rule of civility is like a game, whose only legitimate concern of agents lies not in the results, but in the willing to play. The thesis intimates, finally, that the theory of civil association in Oakeshott#s work is more properly understood as a long meditation between these two sides of civility, with no clear resolution on the definition of a political project in particular. If the hypothesis of this thesis is correct, civil association is a theoretical model able to deal with the dimension of the conflict and antagonism of politics, in a much more profound way than his critics usually consider
The politics and philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
No full textMichael Oakeshott was a leading Political theorist described by The Telegraph in 1990 as "the greatest political philosopher in the Anglo-Saxon tradition since Mill – or even Burke". There has been sustained interest in his work, and a developing body of literature, over recent years. This book offers a clearly written and accessible critical analysis: it presents complex theories and concepts in a way that will introduce new readers to Oakeshott’s work, and at the same time offers a fresh approach for those already familiar with his philosophy.
The Politics and Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott reveals how his work relates to contemporary political philosophy (for example, Arendt, Rorty, Rawls); and moreover, how it links to broader debates within philosophy and the social sciences and, building upon the work of Devigne, through to postmodernism.
This book brings together the disparate influences that have, at various times, been associated with Oakeshott’s work, and draws from a number of essays which have been published posthumously. Referring to these, and other more well-known texts, the author makes sense of the many dimensions of Oakeshott’s work by placing a moral concern as central to his system of thought. All in all this book considers the recently published ‘lesser-known’ essays as well as the latest secondary appraisals of Oakeshott’s work, which sets his thought in the contemporary political environment of the twenty-first century. This much-needed text with be of great interest to students and researchers in political science and philosophy
Reimagining national leadership (Swinburne Leadership Dialogues)
No full textWhy are independents and minor parties on the rise? Is this a good thing? What does this say about the sort of national political leadership Australians want? Or does it say more about what we don't want? What do Australians want of national political leaders? How can we get the leadership the country needs? Speakers include Judith Troeth (Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1993 - 2011, representing the state of Victoria), Maxine McKew (former Labor MP for Bennelong from 2007-2010; author and Honorary Fellow of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne), Rob Oakeshott (independent member for Lyne in the House of Representatives from 2008–2013), and Paul Strangio (Associate Professor of Politics at Monash University; commentator on Australian politics). Recorded 31 July 2014
Reimagining national leadership
No full textA panel of experts discuss political leadership
Panel:
Judith Troeth, former Liberal Senator for Victoria
Rob Oakeshott, former independent member for Lyne
Maxine McKew, former Labor MP for Bennelong
Paul Strangio, Associate Professor of Politics at Monash University
This event was part of the Swinburne Leadership Dialogues series.
Why are independents and minor parties on the rise? Is this a good thing? What does this say about the sort of national political leadership Australians want? Or does it say more about what we don\u27t want? What do Australians want of national political leaders? How can we get the leadership the country needs?
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Tradition and Cognitive Science: Oakeshott\u27s Undoing of the Kantian Mind
No full textIn this discussion, the author asks the question if Oakeshott\u27s famous depiction of a practice might be understood in relation to contemporary cognitive science, in particular connectionism (the contemporary cognitive science approach concerned with the problem of skills and skilled knowing) and in terms of the now conventional view of “normativity” in Anglo-American philosophy. The author suggests that Oakeshott meant to contrast practices to an alternative “Kantian” model of a shared tacit mental frame or set of rules. If cognitive science, in its connectionist forms, allows us to give a naturalistic though nonreductive sense to his words, Oakeshott, like other philosophers who have employed the concept of tradition, expanded his discussion into a broader reconsideration of the nature of theorizing, a metaphilosophy. And this extension can be understood in relation to such recent thinkers as McDowell and, in particular, to the problem of the acquisition of the normative
Michael Oakeshott: Civil association and conservatism
No full textThis chapter focuses on some of Michael Oakeshott’s work during the 1950s, when he was Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics (1950–68). It attends especially to Oakeshott’s lecture series, Morality and Politics in Modern Europe (1958). The author argues (1) that this text is a kind of predecessor to On Human Conduct, in that it attempts to make intelligible the polarity of modern European politics; (2) that it highlights the ‘classical liberal’ character of Oakeshott’s ‘conservatism’; and (3) that what Oakeshott calls ‘individualism’ in fact depends upon the same ‘morality of communal ties’ that he says is now obsolete
Not drowning, waving
No full textRob Oakeshott still has a lot he wants to get done, he tells Peter Browne
Política e ceticismo na filosofia de Michael Oakeshott
No full textOrientador: Prof. Dr. Vinicius Berlendis de FigueiredoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia. Defesa : Curitiba, 16/10/2020Inclui referênciasResumo: Esta dissertação de mestrado procura descrever o pensamento filosófico de Michael Oakeshott. Para isso apresenta os dados biográficos essenciais do autor e faz referência aos principais livros do filósofo no contexto de sua evolução intelectual. O trabalho apresenta as principais discussões em torno das quais os intérpretes do seu pensamento se movimentaram. Destaca, além disso, os temas mais importantes de seu pensamento filosófico, e procura examinar como ocorre este entrelaçamento conceitual. A dissertação analisa os conceitos metafísicos fundamentais do livro "Experience And it’s Modes". A seguir, a dissertação examina como estes conceitos metafísicos se articulam com o posicionamento cético de Oakeshott. Discute, então, a crítica de Oakeshott ao racionalismo filosófico na política, momento em que se examina o conceito de tradição no contexto da filosofia política e as implicações filosóficas da política como atividade prática. No final, estuda o possível significado que os termos "conservador" e "liberal" possa ter quando aplicado ao pensamento político de oakeshottAbstract: This master's dissertation is looking to describe Michael Oakeshott's philosophical thought. For that it presents the essential biographical data of the author and refer to the philosophy's main books in the context of its intellectual evolution. Work presents the main discussions about what the interpreters of his thought moved. Also highlights the most important themes of his philosophical thought, and seeks to examine how this conceptual interlacing occurs. The dissertation analysises the fundamental metaphysical concepts of the book "Experience And it's Modes". Next, the dissertation examines how these metaphysical concepts connect with Oakeshott's skeptic positioning. Then discuss Oakeshott's criticism to philosophical rationalism in politics, a time when examining the concept of tradition in the context of political philosophy and the philosophical implications of politics as practical activity. In the final, study the possible meaning that the terms "conservative" and "liberal" may have when applied to oakeshott's political though
Oakeshott on Civil Association
No full text本文討論區克夏的政治社群理論。區克夏論政治社群之基本屬性乃從人類之行為談起，故所謂『從事』便成為其第一個提出之概念。基於此概念，他又引伸出人群團體的兩種類型，一是enterprise association，一是civil association。前者乃是以實現特定具體目的為宗旨之結合，而後者則依遵從共同之規約而成立。區克夏舉了中世紀的兩個概念以類比：一是universitas，一是societas。前者是企業團體的前身，而後者乃是公民組織的原型。 這兩種人群組織對其成員之心理各有不同要求，而近代歐洲歷史即是此二組織並行成長的歷史。但區克夏認為若國家作為一公民組織其屬性擺盪混淆於二者之間，那就是危險的事。他力將國家化約成只是『一群使用共同規約的人之集合』，任何超越於此功能都會招致個人自由的受威脅。而最後筆者對此觀點之漏洞提出些許質疑。This is a study of Michael Oakeshott's theory of civil association. Oakeshott begins his explration on this through an examination of the nature of human conduct. And the idea of "practice" is what he has found for setting up discussions of human social interactions. Based on the notion of "practice", two types of human associations are in order: enterprise association and civil association. He likens the first to the medieval concept of universitas, and takes civil association as heir to the concept of societas. However, according to Oakeshott, these two concepts are not to be confused, in our conceiving of the nature of the political community we call state, for fear that individual freedom would be jeopardized through the expansion of the state's role This author tries to offer a minor critique on this peculiar brand of liberalism of its image of the state in our contemporary world
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