O Intermitente
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quarta-feira, julho 02, 2003

Michael Oakenshott: Philosopher of Contentment

Reading Oakeshott always leaves the impression of having encountered a supremely civilized mind, austere yet genial, deeply critical of his environment yet fundamentally contented with his own resources for coping with it. He still finds much within his tradition that is worth conserving and even developing, despite the prevalence of “the Servile State” (a phrase he borrows, of course, from Hilaire Belloc).

He writes with a profound confidence in that tradition that I always find encouraging. He is not the sort of conservative who wails that all is lost.

Uma introdução ao pensamento de Michael Oakenshott.
posted by Miguel Noronha 9:37 da manhã