Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection电子书

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Publisher information

Notebooks, 1922–86

Title page

Preface

Introduction

Notebook 1 (c.1922)

Notebook 2 (c.1922)

Notebook 3 (1922)

Notebook 4 (1923)

Plato 1 (July 1923)

Plato 2 (July 1923)

Early Greek Philosophy (October 1923)

Spinoza (October 1923)

Aristotle 1 (November 1923)

Notebook 5 (1923)

Aristotle 2 (December 1923)

Aristotle 3 (January 1924)

Aristotle 4 (February 1924)

Aristotle 5 (April 1924)

Notebook 6 (September 1924)

Notebook 7 (November 1925)

Notebook 8 (November 1926)

Notebook 9 (January 1927)

Notebook 10 (September 1928)

Belle Dame Notebook 1 (1928–1929)

Belle Dame Notebook 2 (1929–January 1930)

Belle Dame Notebook 3 (January–June 1930)

Belle Dame Notebook 4 (June–December 1930)

Belle Dame Notebook 5 (December 1930–April 1931)

Secularism (c.1930)

Belle Dame Notebook 6 (March–June 1931)

Belle Dame Notebook 7 (June–July 1931)

Belle Dame Notebook 8 (July–31 December 1931)

Notebook 11 (October 1931)

Belle Dame Notebook 9 (January–October 1932)

Belle Dame Notebook 10 (October 1932–March 1934)

Belle Dame Notebook 11 (March 1934)

Notebook 12 (December 1934)

Notebook 13 (April 1936)

A Conversation (1944)

Nelson (c.1947)

Notebook 14 (February 1955)

Notebook 15 (March 1955)

Notebook 16 (September 1958)

Notebook 17 (April 1961)

Notebook 18 (March 1964)

Notebook 19 (January 1966)

Notebook 20 (April 1967)

Notebook 21 (1 January 1981)

Early Political Writings 1925–30

Title Page

Preface

Editorial Introduction

I: The Early Oakeshott and Political Philosophy

II: A Discussion of Some Matters Preliminary to the Study of Political Philosophy

III: The Philosophical Approach to Politics

IV: Oakeshott’s Early and Late Ideas on Political Philosophy Compared

V: A Note on the Texts

Part 1: A Discussion of Some Matters Preliminary to the Study of Political Philosophy

Introduction

Definition

Political Philosophy

The State

Note A: A State and the State.

Note B: The Ideal, the Real and the Actual.

Note C: A State and a Nation.

Note D: Some Definitions of the State.

The Self

The State and the Self

Government and Law

Conclusion

Part 2 The Philosophical Approach to Politics

What is Political Philosophy?

The General Nature of Thinking and Philosophy

Political Thinking in General

Scientific Thinking about Politics

Historical Thinking about Politics

Practical Thinking about Politics

Pseudo-Philosophical Thinking about Politics

Philosophy Again

The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence

Title Page

Preface

Introduction

I: Religion

II: Historiography and Philosophy of History

III: Culture

IV: Philosophy

V: Politics

VI: The History of Political Thought

A Note on the Texts

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

Bernard Bosanquet’s Philosophy of the State

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes

Ideology and Utopia

This Freedom of Ours

The Modern Mind

The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence

I

II

III

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-Lytton

Man 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’ Règles 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

The Tyrants

The Attack

Listen to Him!

Cambridge Conversations

The English Utilitarians

John Locke’s Political Philosophy

Patriarcha

The Concept of Mind

Tell Me the Next One

Beyond Realism and Idealism

The Great Philosophers

Mr Carr’s First Volume

The B.B.C.

Modern Capitalism and Economic Progress

The City of God and Introduction to St Augustine

Citizenship and Social Class

The Discourses of Niccoló Machiavelli

History, Its Purpose and Method

Liberties of the Mind

Dominations and Powers

The Price of Revolution

Psychoanalysis and Politics

Introduction to Politics

The Vocabulary of a Modern European State

Title page

Preface

Introduction

I: Religion

II: Philosophy

III: Culture

IV: Historiography and Philosophy of History

V: History and Political Thought

VI: Politics—The Reviews

VII: Politics—The Essays

A Note on the Texts

A Reminder from Leviathan

The Ethics of Redistribution

Two Cheers for Democracy

An Introduction to Philosophy of History

Liberty or Equality

The Problem of Power

The Liberal Anglican Idea of History

Freedom: A New Analysis

The Vocabulary of Politics

The Letters of Jacob Burckhardt

Anarchy and Order

Politics and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century

Political Parties

The Conservative Mind

Memoirs of Dr Eduard Beneš

The Hungry Sheep

Reason and Revolution

The Concept of Government in Modern Europe

I Introduction

II Assumptions for the Existence of Government

III Different Ideas about Government

IV The Constitution of Government

V The Growing Importance of the Functions of Government

VI The Ordering of Governmental Activities

VII The Ambiguity of Our Political Vocabulary and Its Meaning

VIII Historical Origins of Our Thinking about the Function of Government

IX Conclusion

Government by Committee

Man on His Past

Uncommon People

History in a Changing World

Conservatism in America

Studies in Communication

Minos or Minotaur?

Mazzini

The Chatham Administration, 1766–1768

Sovereignty

The English Woman in History

The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

The Study of Comparative Government and Politics

Marxism and the Open Mind

George III and the Historians

The Opium of the Intellectuals

Documents of Modern Political Thought

Personal Knowledge

Realism and Imagination

Political Discipline in a Free Society

The Story of Fabian Socialism

Two Treatises of Government

Montesquieu

Political Laws and Captive Audiences

The Essentials of Parliamentary Democracy

Rationalism in Politics: A Reply to Professor Raphael

The Conservative Opportunity

Philosophy, Politics and Society

Magna Charta

The Works of Joseph de Maistre

Coleridge and the Idea of the Modern State

Nazism

History of the Party

Programme

Revolutionary Aims and Tactics

Social and Political Doctrine

Party and State

Hobbes Studies

The Principles of Politics

Sovereignty

William of Wykeham

The Aims of History

Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State

The Vocabulary of a Modern European State

I

II

III

On Misunderstanding Human Conduct

Conservative Essays

In Search of the Constitution

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Preface to ‘The Form of Ideology’

Conservative Thoughts and Conservative Thinkers

Lectures in the History of Political Thought

Title page

Preface

Editors’ Introduction

Oakeshott’s Introduction (Lecture 1)

Greek Political Thought (Lectures 2–10)

Roman Political Thought (Lectures 11–15)

Medieval Political Thought (Lectures 16–22)

Modern Political Thought (Lectures 23–33)

A Note on the Texts

Introduction

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Editorial Note

The Political Experience of the Ancient Greeks

1

2

3: The Land

4: The People

5: The Early Polis

6

7

8

9

10

Editorial Note

The Greek Image of the World

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Editorial Note

The Political Thought of the Ancient Greeks (1)

1

2

3

4

5

6

Editorial Note

The Political Thought of the Ancient Greeks (2)

1

2

3

4

5

6

Editorial Note

Aristotle (1)

1

2

3

4

5

6

Editorial Note

Aristotle (2)

1

2

3

4

5

Editorial Note

Plato (1)

1

2

3

4

5

6

Editorial Note

Plato (2)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Editorial Note

Stoics and Epicureans

1

2

3

4

5

Editorial Note

The Political Experience of the Ancient Romans (1)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8: The Rule of the Patrician Consuls

9

Editorial Note

The Political Experience of the Ancient Romans (2)

1

2

3

4

5

Editorial Note

Roman Political Thought (1)

1

2

3

Editorial Note LSE

Roman Political Thought (2)

1

2

3: Auctoritas

4: Potestas

5

6

Editorial Note

Roman Political Thought (3)

1

2

3

4

Editorial Note

Medieval Political Experience

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Editorial Note

Medieval Government

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Editorial Note

The Medieval Theory of Empire

1

2

3

4

5

Editorial Note

Medieval Law

1

2

3

4

5

Editorial Note LSE

Medieval Parliaments

1

2

4

5

Editorial Note

Medieval Political Philosophy (1): Augustine

1

2

3

4

6

7

8

Editorial Note

Medieval Political Philosophy (2): Aquinas

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Editorial Note

The Character of a Modern European State

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Editorial Note

The Generation of a Modern State

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Editorial Note

Modern European Political Thought

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Editorial Note

Interpretations of the Modern European State (1)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Editorial Note

Interpretations of the Modern European State (2)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

8

Editorial Note

The Authority of Governments and the Obligations of Subjects (1)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Editorial Note

The Authority of Governments and the Obligations of Subjects (2)

1

2

3

4

5

6

Editorial Note

The Authority of Governments and the Obligations of Subjects (3)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Editorial Note

The Office of Government (1)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Editorial Note

The Office of Government (2)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7: Kant

8: Adam Smith

9: Bentham

10

11

Editorial Note

What Is History?

Title page

Preface

Introduction

The Essays

1. The Nature of Philosophy

2. Historical Understanding

3. Political Philosophy

4. Education

A Note on the Texts

History is a Fable

Editorial Notes

The Cambridge School of Political Science

Editorial Notes

An Essay on the Relations of Philosophy, Poetry and Reality

I. Introduction

II. PHILOSOPHY

III. POETRY

IV. Philosophy and Poetry Face to Face

V. Conclusion

Editorial Notes

The Philosophy of History

Editorial Notes

What Do We Look for in an Historian?

Editorial Notes

The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe

Editorial Notes

On Peace with Germany

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Editorial Notes

The Voice of Conversation in the Education of Mankind

Editorial Notes

The Philosophy of History

Editorial Notes

Richard Hooker

Editorial Notes

The Whig Interpretation of History

Editorial Notes

The New Society

Editorial Notes

The New Science of Politics

Editorial Notes

Freedom and Power

Editorial Notes

Conduct and Ideology in Politics

Editorial Notes

The Idea of ‘Character’ in the Interpretation of Modern Politics

1

2

3

4

Editorial Notes

Democracy in England

Editorial Notes

Current Ideas about Government

Editorial Notes

The Constitution of Liberty

Editorial Notes

Work and Play

Editorial Notes

Between Past and Future

Editorial Notes

What is History?

1

2

Editorial Notes

On Arriving at a University

Editorial Notes

The Historiography of Max Lenz

Editorial Notes

The Emergence of the History of Thought

Editorial Notes

The Character of a University Education

1

2

Editorial Notes

What is Political Theory?

Editorial Notes

Political Thought as a Subject of Historical Enquiry

II

III

IV

V

Editorial Notes

Law

Editorial Notes

Europe, the Emergence of an Idea

Editorial Notes

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