biography
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Oakeshott, Michael Joseph
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1901–90)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and political theorist, born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, taught there (1929–49), and was professor of political science at the London School of Economics (1950–69). His first and main philosophical work was Experience and its Modes (1933), written broadly from within the English idealist tradition. This view of human experience and conduct is developed in his political theory, which tends to be conservative, pragmatic, and sceptical of systematization and ideology, as represented in the later works Rationalism in Politics (1962) and On Human Conduct (1975). |
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