On human conduct:/ Michael oakeshott

By: Oakeshott, MichaelMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Description: x, 329p. softbound 13*21 cmISBN: 0-19-827758-xDDC classification: 320.01

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1. On the theoretical understanding of human conduct 2. On the civil condition 3. On the character of a modern European state On Human Conduct is composed of three connected essays. Each has its own concern: the first with theoretical understanding, and with human conduct in general; the second with an ideal mode of human relationship which the author has called civil association; and the third with that ambiguous, historic association commonly called a modern European state. Running through the work is Professor Oakshott's belief in philosophical reflection as an adventure: the adventure of one who seeks to understand in other terms what he already understands, and where the understanding is sought is a disclosure of the conditions of the understanding enjoyed and not a substitute for it. Its most appropriate expression is an essay, which, he writes, 'does not dissemble the conditionality of the conclusions it throws up and although it may enlighten it does not instruct.'

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tetso College Library Political Science	Reference	320.01 OAK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		13567

1. On the theoretical understanding of human conduct
2. On the civil condition
3. On the character of a modern European state

On Human Conduct is composed of three connected essays. Each has its own concern: the first with theoretical understanding, and with human conduct in general; the second with an ideal mode of human relationship which the author has called civil association; and the third with that ambiguous, historic association commonly called a modern European state. Running through the work is Professor Oakshott's belief in philosophical reflection as an adventure: the adventure of one who seeks to understand in other terms what he already understands, and where the understanding is sought is a disclosure of the conditions of the understanding enjoyed and not a substitute for it. Its most appropriate expression is an essay, which, he writes, 'does not dissemble the conditionality of the conclusions it throws up and although it may enlighten it does not instruct.'

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