A Companion to Michael Oakeshott

Index

index Adorno, Theodor, 308 Aesop, 298 aesthetics, 4, 6, 9, 135, 151–72, 164–65. See also art, poetry Althusius, Johannes, 201–5 Annan, Noel, 173 Anscombe, Elizabeth, 114 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 105, 175, 177, 179, 207, 220 Arendt, Hannah, 147, 300 Aristotle, 3, 102, 103, 132, 151, 164, 168, 171n2, 198, 206, 207, 235, 287, 296, 299, 335n3 Arnold, Matthew, 9, 176, 178, 179, 182, 191, 192 art, 71, 78, 84, 118n15, 140, 153, 159, 161, 162– 64, 165, 168, 170. See also aesthetics, poetry Attlee, Clement, 3 Aubrey, John, 91n11 Augustine, Saint, 20, 23, 40n22, 96, 139, 145, 146, 148 Austin, J. L. 7, 66, 72, 80, 85, 90, 93n34 authority, 11, 218–19, 222, 225, 226, 228, 275–77, 279, 292, 295–300, 304, 306, 312, 318, 321, 323–34, 335n2, 335n4 Ayer, A. J., 50, 66 Bacon, Sir Francis, 220, 273, 284, 295 Bentham, Jeremy, 3, 66, 278, 317 Berkeley, George, 49, 53, 54, 236 Berlin, Isaiah, 44n58 Blackstone, William, 317 Blake, William, 145 Blanshard, Brand, 48, 49, 55, 56, 57, 62 Bloom, Allan, 193n7 Bodin, Jean, 202, 273, 332, 334 Bosanquet, Bernard, 72, 100, 115, 292 Boucher, David, 306 Boyd, Richard, 261 Boyle, Robert, 236 Bradley, F. H., 2, 48, 51–59, 62, 64, 65, 66, 72, 76, 97, 100, 101, 115, 271 Burgh, W. G. de, 103 Burke, Edmund, 3, 4, 11, 237, 244, 260, 271, 280, 281, 284, 285 and Oakeshott, 268–71, 275, 278–79, 288 Strauss’s assessment of, 287–88 Burton, Kate (second wife of Michael Oakeshott), 30, 34, 42n43, 42n45, 43nn46–47, 43nn53–54, 44n59 Butler, Bishop Joseph, 262 Butterfield, Herbert, 116, 232 Caird, Edward, 48, 54 Calvin, John, 205, 294 Cambridge University, 15, 48, 51, 55 and idealism, 50–53 study of politics at, 291-92 Capitant, René, 224–25 Carritt, E.F, 50 Cervantes, Miguel de, 151, 158, 166, 170, 170n1 Christianity, 16, 17, 23, 24, 131, 132, 174 Churchill, Winston, 286 Cicero, 296 civil association, 5, 11, 128, 164, 170, 227, 290–311 and authority, 324 criticisms of, 305–7 and enterprise association, 258, 275, 294–96 future of, 307–10 and Hobbes, 223, 227–30, 273 and identity politics, 308–9 and law, 274–75, 276 and liberalism, 303–5 and minimal state, 302–3 as moral association, 323 and respublica, 296–69 rules in, 299–300 Coats, Wendell John, Jr., 48 cognitive science, 11, 248, 253 Coke, Sir Edward, 219, 317 Coleridge, Samuel, 145 collectivism, 242 Collingwood, R. G, 2, 10, 48, 49-50, 55, 64, 72, 76, 91n14, 92n23, 118n15, 224 criticism of Oakeshott, 92n19 communism, 295 conservatism, 4, 11, 268–89 and liberalism, 261, 278 neo-, 269 constructivism, 249, 253, 254 contingency, 122, 125, 147 342 index conversation, 4, 6, 9, 84, 137, 155, 172n19, 182, 189 analogy for university, 173, 178-79, 181 and philosophy, 61–66 Cook Wilson, John, 66, 73 Copernicus, Nicolaus, 53 Corey, Elizabeth Campbell, 171n6 Covell, Charles, 335n5 Croce, Benedetto, 2, 72, 76, 91n15 Cromwell, Oliver, 236 culture, 175, 178, 183, 188–89, 191. See also conversation, education Davidson, Donald, 115 death, 121, 122, 124, 125. See also mortality democracy, 11, 85, 303, 307–8 Descartes, René, 11, 50, 53, 105, 220, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 254 Dewey, John, 189 Dilthey, Wilhelm, 55, 64, 94n40, 103, 115, 184, 248 Donatello, 158 education, 1, 6, 9, 137, 138, 173–94 fragmentation of, 173, 177, 179, 192 and specialization, 173, 174, 183, 192 vocational versus university, 198 Eliot, George (Mary Anne Evans), 108 Eliot, T. S., 158, 171n14, 174, 178, 179, 191, 192 Enlightenment, 132, 268, 284, 285 Epicurus, 206, 207 epistemology, 6, 47, 49, 54, 53, 55, 58, 59, 72, 80, 81, 97, 101, 104, 249, 251, 273. See also knowledge analytic, 250 idealist, 8 and sociology, 251 Eucken, Rudolph, 52 Evremond, Saint Charles de, 236 existentialism, 90 experience, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 49, 52–66, 70–94, 85, 86, 98, 99–102, 107, 116. See also modality Filmer, Robert, 207 Flathman, Richard, 335n1 Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 236 Foster, Michael, 168 Franco, Paul, 1, 61, 63, 90n3, 164, 172n24 Frankfurt School, 308 Frayn, Michael, 160, 172n27 freedom, 64, 123, 126, 129, 227, 24–22, 255–61, 263, 265n37, 273, 283, 285, 287 and authority, 11, 291, 306 and civil association, 293, 295, 296, 291, 299, 302, 304, 306, 308, 309 inherent in agency, 53, 121 French Revolution, 287, 288 Fricker, Joyce (first wife of Michael Oakeshott), 17, 18, 20, 21–25, 28...