V. A Rationalist Malgré Lui: The Perplexities of Being Michael Oakeshott

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spitz
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Michael Oakeshott ◽  
Political Philosopher

APART FROM HIS WORK AS AN INTERPRETER of Hobbes, Oakeshott's significance as a political philosopher prior to the publication of On Human Conduct1 may fairly be said to be encompassed in, and derive from, his essay “Political Education.”2 To be sure, he has written a good deal before and after that essay, but the bulk of those writings—not least the papers collected in his Rationalism in Politics-are in one way or another glosses on the central theme articulated in that inaugural lecture. That theme has both a philosophical and a doctrinal importance. At the philosophical level, it offers a serious challenge to conventional conceptions of political theory. At the doctrinal level, it sets forth an alternative to conventional conservatism—but not, as some American conservatives like to think, a compatible or complementary alternative.

Oakeshott, Michael Joseph (1901–90)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Minogue
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
Michael Oakeshott ◽  
Civil Association ◽  
Political Philosopher

Although Michael Oakeshott was in his own time a lone figure in a philosophical world dominated by Oxford analysis, he has come to be recognized as the most notable British political philosopher of the twentieth century. He is best known for his view that political activity is neither purely empirical nor the application of ideas, but ‘the pursuit of intimations’. His image of culture as a conversation between different kinds of understanding has been widely accepted. Oakeshott first became celebrated in attacking what he called ‘rationalism’ in the Cambridge Journal (which he edited) in 1947. Oakeshott’s rationalist is a restless political meddler who believes that politics is putting ideas into effect. The fullest statement of his political philosophy is On Human Conduct (1975), in which the modern state is understood as a tension between civil and enterprise association. Exploring the idea of a civil association is perhaps Oakeshott’s most notable contribution to political philosophy.

Research on the framework of university ideological and political education management system based on artificial intelligence

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xuying Sun ◽  
Yu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Outlier Detection ◽  
Management System ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Ideological And Political Education ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Data Simulation ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Technology

The importance of the management of ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities is objective to the importance of ideological and political theory courses. At present, the management of ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities has big problems in both macro and micro aspects. This paper combines artificial intelligence technology to build an intelligent management system for ideological and political education in colleges and universities based on artificial intelligence, and conducts classroom supervision through intelligent recognition of student status. The KNN outlier detection algorithm based on KD-Tree is proposed to extract the state information of class students. Through data simulation, it can be known that the KD-KNN outlier detection algorithm proposed in this paper significantly improves the efficiency of the algorithm while ensuring the accuracy of the KNN algorithm classification. Through experimental research, it can be seen that the construction of this system not only clarifies the direction of management from a macro perspective, but also reveals specific methods of management from a micro perspective, and to a certain extent effectively solves the problems in the management of ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities.

Self-Ownership, Autonomy, and Property Rights

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
High Tide ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
To Come ◽  
Made In

Writers of very different persuasions have relied on arguments about self-ownership; in recent years, it is libertarians who have rested their political theory on self-ownership, but Grotian authoritarianism rested on similar foundations, and, even though it matters a good deal that Hegel did not adopt a full-blown theory of self-ownership, so did Hegel's liberal-conservatism. Whether the high tide of the idea has passed it is hard to say. One testimony to its popularity was the fact that G. A. Cohen for a time thought that the doctrine of self-ownership was so powerful that an egalitarian like himself had to come to terms with it; but he has since changed his mind. I have tackled the topic of self-ownership glancingly elsewhere, but have not hitherto tried to pull together the observations I have made in passing on those occasions. The view I have taken for granted and here defend is that self-ownership is not an illuminating notion—except in contexts that are unattractive to anyone of libertarian tastes.

The Puzzle of the Political Animal: Nature and Artifice in Aristotle's Political Theory

1994 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary J. Nederman
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Locomotion ◽  
Political Education ◽  
The Political ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Systematic Education

Several recent scholars have raised afresh the question of what Aristotle meant in Politics 1 by the statement that men are “by nature” political, that is, are political animals. This article addresses this quandary by reference to Aristotle's psychology and his notion of political education. It is argued that by concentrating on Aristotle's theory of human locomotion and its implications for moral choice, we may identify the relation he conceived between the polis and human nature. Specifically, the ability of humans to live according to their natures requires the systematic education afforded by the laws and institutions of the polis.

Political Theory and Political Education

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
E. M. Adams ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Education

IV. Individuals in Communities

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
New Work ◽  
Ethical Philosophy

Although there has been a good deal of important new work on Greek political philosophy, there has not, until recently, been the same intensity or volume of scholarly debate as in the case of Greek ethical philosophy; and it would not be so easy to define prevalent trends. I offer, instead, a personal treatment of one important strand in Greek political theory, which both draws on some recent scholarly thinking and complements the themes of other chapters in this book.

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