VI. On Misunderstanding Human Conduct
A Reply to My Critics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11623165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Oakeshott (Emeritus of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353-368 |
| Publication date | 1976-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009059177600400308 |
| OpenAlex | W2727055139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
LJAM SORRY NOT TO HAVE ENLISTED enough of Hanna Pitkin's attention and goodwill for her to have been able to opeln my book with the thought: wonder what he has to say here; I doubt if I shall like it, but let me try to understand. Instead, she treats it as if it were a suit of armour which I have hastily buckled on in order to conceal some prejudices and to protect myself from having to consider really important questions, and she devotes herself to looking for some chinks through which to thrust her daggers. But the book is not at all like that. It is an almost pathetically ingenuous account of an enquiry followed in an orderly manner, trying not to leave too many gaps in the argument and concerned to explore some distinctions I take to be important and interesting. Who would guess from what she says that what she calls my epistemology (it is nothing so grand as that), and to which she attributes the failure of my book, is not much more than: all understandings are conditional and are themselves to be understood in terms of their conditions; when you see an assumption, explore it; you will never get anywhere by questioning everything at the same time; and all roads do not lead to Rome. She reports on the book as follows: it is a book about politics (or political life); it purports to be a rigorous and systematic statement of
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Law and economics · Nothing · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wonder · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Oakeshott's Hobbesian Myth
Rethinking world politics
Ian Gilmour and One Nation Conservatism
Globalisation and public policy under New Labour
This Is Simply What I Do”
Oakeshott on theory and practice
A Demnocratic Oakeshott
Restructuring the state in a globalizing world
Herbert Werlin on Sheldon Wolin
Habermas and Oakeshott on Rationalism, Morality and Democratic Politics
Michael Oakeshott on Civility, Civil Society and Civil Association
The Irony of Modern Conservatism
Public goods in Michael Oakeshott’s ‘world of pragmata
Political Theory and the Conduct of Faith
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2023 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |