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The Place of Politics on The Map of Human Experience According to Michael Oakeshott
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the article is to analyze the place of politics on the map of human experience in the political philosophy of Michael Oakeshott.
THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The problem of what place politics occupies and should occupy in human life is one of the most important issues in political thought. In this article I present an interpretation of Michael Oakeshott's position on this matter. I try to understand why he thinks politics has relatively little importance in human experience.
As for the method, the article was written in the spirit of the hermeneutical tradition.
THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: In order to understand Oakeshott's position, who assigns politics a relatively unimportant place in human experience, I first try to answer the question of how he understood the concept of experience. I then argue that the function he assigned to politics is related to placing it in the practical modality of human experience. In the next step, I try to answer the question about functions of politics in human life. Finally, I provide answers to the questions within which traditions of thinking about politics can Oakeshott's view be placed and what is the specificity of his position.
RESEARCH RESULTS: Oakeshott's argument is a compelling critique of positions that assign too much of a role to politics in human experience. His conclusions are an important voice in the debate about the role of politics, constituting a fundamental critique of ideologies that seek to transform human life using political tools, but also of more respectable political positions proclaiming the view that politics should be the content of a good life.
Keywords
modes of experience, conservatism, liberalism, modernity
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