Abstract
In the previous pages the connection between politics and history has been brought into relief from different points of view. The difference corresponds to the difference in focus which characterizes the respective system explored. The very term “history” — as we have seen — is used to denote a variety of meanings. In the course of Collingwood’s development, the term was made to carry several different connotations; in Isaiah Berlin the term denotes the process in time and its rhythm.
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Ibid., p. 106.
Ibid., p. 105.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., p. 355. It is not out of place to mention here the characteristic reservation against utopianism present in a previous stage of English philosophy and indeed in a trend different from that represented by M. Oakeshott. We refer here to J. S. Mill — and indeed to Bentham as well. Mill says that he did not think the Utopian doctrines — Owenite, St. Simonian — to be true or desire that they should be acted on. Mill wanted that the higher classes “might be made to see that they had more to fear from the poor when uneducated, than when educated” (J. S. Mill, Autobiography, Oxford, 1935, p. 146). Utopias are to be eye-openers.
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Cf. p. XII of his edition of Hobbes’ Leviathan, Oxford, 1946.
Following Professor Oakeshott’s terminology, A. P. d’Entrèves refers to Hobbes as a ‘rationalist’. See Natural Law: An Introduction to Legal Philosophy, London, 1951.
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Ibid.
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Rotenstreich, N. (1976). History, Tradition and Politics: Michael Oakeshott. In: Philosophy, History and Politics. Melbourne International Philosophy Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1351-2_3
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