A storm from paradise
Liberalism and the problem of time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251832 |
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| Authors | Jacob Segal (0000-0002-1876-8793, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-48 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913819408443322 |
| OpenAlex | W1981391925 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The tendency of classical politics to embed the individual in universal and transcendental patterns of action followed in part from the recognition of the futility of unpredictable action oriented to the individual's transient personal future. By contrast, F. A. Hayek argues for liberalism and the rule of law because it is instrumental to the achievement of human ends. Michael Oakeshott, however, claims that freedom is a value in itself, and that liberalism should emphasize moral autonomy because the moral life is public and not oriented to external ends. The moral life intimates a form of self‐sufficiency in action, and self‐sufficient action is timeless in the sense of being indifferent to either the past or the future. Oakeshott returns liberalism to the problems of classical politics without recourse to the dictatorial imposition of a single substantive good
Action (physics · Autonomy · Classical liberalism · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transcendental number · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence
Rationalism in politics, and other essays.
The Myth of the Eternal Return
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
Science as a Vocation
A Theory of Justice
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
Time, Narrative and History
Experience and its Modes
The Redefinition of Conservatism
The Human Condition
The Greek Discovery of Politics
Experience and Its Modes
The legitimacy of the modern age
Civil Association and the Idea of Contingency
Michael Oakeshott as Liberal Theorist
The Legend of Oakeshott's Conservatism
Political Philosophy and Time
Kant and the Problem of History
The Passions and the Interests
| Highly cited | No |
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