Saturday, March 10, 2012

The wisdom of Michael Oakeshott

"It is the mark of all intelligent discourse
            that it is about something in particular."


Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)


Oakeshott was an English philosopher and political theorist, he served as a Fellow at Cambridge and as Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. His credentials are decent, to say the least.

I do not endorse his work because I know almost nothing about it, but I like his epigram about intelligent discourse, which is in short supply in the public realm these days. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it means something in particular…..give it a try yourself…

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