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It’s something more fundamental.Conservatism proper is a disposition. It’s a tradition that runs through Socrates, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Friedrich Hayek, Russell Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, and Thomas Sowell. These men disagree on as...
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Romney's salient quality is not wealth. It is, for better and worse, his tenacious drive -- the sort of relentlessness that we associate with striving immigrants, not rich scions. Where did this persistence come from? It's plausible to think that it...
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Romney’s salient quality is not wealth. It is, for better and worse, his tenacious drive – the sort of relentlessness that we associate with striving immigrants, not rich scions. Where did this persistence come from? It’s plausible to think that it came...
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Romney's salient quality is not wealth. It is, for better and worse, his tenacious drive — the sort of relentlessness that we associate with striving immigrants, not rich scions. Where did this persistence come from? It's plausible to think that it came...
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It is, for better and worse, his tenacious drive — the sort of relentlessness that we associate with striving immigrants, not rich scions.Where did this persistence come from? It’s plausible to think that it came from his family history. Philosopher...
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No special knowledge or jargon is required to understand a Hockney landscape. Let us now turn to Damien Hirst, whose display of spot paintings opened at both of London’s Gagosian galleries last week. Just as Hockney is conservative, so Hirst fits in...
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To illustrate the point consider the standard claim about conservatism put forward by Michael Oakeshott in 1956 (also cited by Robin): To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to...
About Michael Oakeshott
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Michael Joseph Oakeshott (11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher with particular interests in political thought, the philosophy of history, education, and religion, and aesthetics. He is now regarded as one of the significant conservative intellectuals of the twentieth century. Full Article
