Format:
1 online resource (474 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781845403089
Series Statement:
Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings, 3 v.3
Content:
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...
Content:
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 Culture -- The 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 Survival -- Civitas 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845401801
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781845401801
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=831783
