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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461641103321

Autore

Oakeshott Michael <1901-1990.>

Titolo

The concept of a philosophical jurisprudence [[electronic resource] ] : essays and reviews 1926-51 / / Michael Oakeshott ; edited by Luke O'Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[England], : Andrews UK, 2011, c2007

ISBN

1-283-44543-3

9786613445438

1-84540-308-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 p.)

Collana

Michael Oakeshott, selected writings ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

O'SullivanLuke

Disciplina

340.1

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Political science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in the U.K. by Imprint Academic.

Originally published in the U.S.A. by Imprint Academic.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; Introduction; Body Matter; Science, Religion, and Reality; The Christian Religion and Its Competitors To-day; Providence - Divine and Human; The Metaphysics of Evolution; General Theory of Value; The Principles and Problems of Philosophy; The Realm of Mind and Three Conceptions of Mind; Contemporary Thought of Great Britain; Can We Then Believe? Essays Catholic and Critical, and The Inescapable Christ; Modernism in the English Church; Fundamental Problems of Life; Authority in Church and State; Clemenceau

The Meaning of CultureThe Principles of Politics; What is Conservatism? and The Pathetic Fallacy; God and Man; The Making of the Christian Mind; Experience of God; Afterthoughts and Aphorisms; Hunger and Love; Adventures in Philosophy and Religion; Ethical Principles in Theory and Practice; Religion without God, The New Divine Order, and Philosophy without Metaphysics; John Locke; The Social and Political Ideas of Some Representative Thinkers of the Age of Reaction and Reconstruction; The Making of the State; Interpreting the Universe;



Idealistic Logic; In Job's Balances

A New Argument for God and SurvivalCivitas Dei; Natural Law and the Theory of Society; Aspects of Dialectical Materialism; Adventures of Ideas; The Horizon of Experience; Richard Hooker als politischer Denker; Thomas Hobbes; Christianity and the Nature of History and Religion and History; Morals and Politics; The Political Philosophies of Plato and Hegel; Right: a Study in Physical and Moral Order; History and the Social Sciences; An Introduction to Contemporary German Philosophy; The Meaning of History; The Historical Element in Religion; Collected Essays

Bernard Bosanquet's Philosophy of the StateThe Political Philosophy of Hobbes; Ideology and Utopia; This Freedom of Ours; The Modern Mind; The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence; The Principles of Art; Swords and Symbols; Reason in Politics; The Politics of Democratic Socialism; Men and Ideas; Politics and Morals; The Idea of History; The Liberal Tradition; Western Political Thought; Contemporary British Politics; The Analysis of Political Behaviour; The English Festivals; Nietzsche; Masters of Political Thought; Why We Read History; Father, a Portrait of G.G. Coulton at Home

Bulwer-LyttonMan and Society; Reason and Unreason in Society; Puritanism and Democracy; Decadence; Science and Society; The State and the Citizen; The Triple Challenge; How to Stop the Russians without War; Principles and Ideals in Politics; The Modern Approach to Descartes' Problem, Notes on Descartes' ReĢ€gles and Descartes; Socialism and Ethics; The Tree of Commonwealth; Insight and Outlook; Deviation into Sense; The Life of Reason; Matter, Mind, and Meaning; Barbara Celarent; The Freedom of Necessity; The Life of Reason; Marxism and Contemporary Science; The Origins of Modern Science

The Coming Defeat of Communism

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together for the first time over a hundred of Oakeshott's essays and reviews, written between 1926 and 1951, that until now have remained scattered through a variety of scholarly journals, periodicals and newspapers. A new editorial introduction explains how these pieces, including the lengthy essay on the philosophical nature of jurisprudence that occupies an important position in Oakeshott's work, illuminate his other published writings. The collection throws new light o...