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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"michael oakeshott"”.
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Being otherworldly in the world: Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics and politics
This dissertation is a study of the thought of Michael Oakeshott with particular emphasis on his writings about the character of religion and aesthetics. The dissertation as a whole makes the case that a certain moral vision-one informed by religious and aesthetic considerations-lies at the center …
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Towards a <i>Literary Criticism</i>: Lowry, Durrell, Dolores, and the alchemical balance between critical and creative writing
… begin this study with the formalistic essays of Michael Oakeshott and Susan Sontag, observing the precarious position of aesthetics in contemporary literary discourse. Rather than fit the novels <em>Under the Volcano</em> and the <em>Alexandria Quartet</em> into normative Kantian or New Critical …
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Politikos autonomija kaip moralinis projektas. H. Arendt, M. Oakeshotto ir C. Schmitto koncepcijų analizė /
… of politics formulated by Hannah Arendt, Michael Oakeshott and Carl Schmitt offer a new – ontological – way of interpreting this relationship. The ontological approach is philosophically superior to the theoretical or rationalist approach that is dominant in the West. The starting point of …
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Political philosophy and private property : an evaluation of four main types of theory concerning ownership and distribution of property in a just society
… theories of Karl Marx, G A Cohen, Robert Nozick, Michael Oakeshott, John Rawls, Alan Ryan and Ronald Dworkin and attempts conceptual analyses of "freedom", "equality", "justice" and "property". Finally, it is concluded that: 1. There is no natural right to property. 2. The form of property rights …