Talk:Michael Oakeshott
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What is "modal arrest" that is mentioned in this article? Should this be "modal interest"? Interlingua 14:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
On Oakeshott's conservatism, the American philosopher John R. Searle once declared: "Oakeshott is usually characterized as a conservative, but if that is true, it is more in the sense in which Hume and Burke are conservatives, rather than in the sense of contemporary American or British politics" (in: The Storm Over the University, in: The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1990). [1] This is relevant, according to me.... Henry Cassini 15:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- I agree that Oakeshott was a 20th century Burke, without the practical experience. Likewise, he never marched under the Thatcherite banner.Palnot (talk) 18:21, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] My two cents
This entry is too long, and not written in an encyclopedic style. More should be said about how Oakeshott haunts the present day American public conversation because of his great influence on Andrew Sullivan. There is as yet no biography of Oakeshott. Reader, bear with me as I share some gossip about this curious man. Oakeshott's private life was not "respectable". He was no family values conservative:
- In his youth and middle age, he spent a number of summer holidays tramping in rural France, wandering from village to village, sometimes sleeping in haystacks and the like;
- He was loyal to the Anglican church in some sense, mainly because he feared the dark side of human nature. This loyalty did not preclude his marrying seven times, and his being intimate with women he never married. If he ever had children, I have not seen them mentioned in print;
- Sometime in the 1970s, when he was more than 70 years of age, a constable chanced upon Oakeshott's partaking of the favours of a woman on a deserted public beach in daylight. This resulted in a conviction, one which explains why he was never knighted, even though the Thatcher government admired him.Palnot (talk) 18:21, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
He turned down a knighthood, according to Sullivan and others. (Jackdelyelis (talk) 01:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC))
