A conservative perspective on politics and political education: Michael Oakeshott  Cover Image

O perspectivă conservatoare asupra politicii şi educaţiei politice: Michael Oakeshott
A conservative perspective on politics and political education: Michael Oakeshott

Author(s): Gabriela Tănăsescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: politics; attending to the general arrangement of a society; knowledge of politics; political education; understanding of political activity; empirical activity; political ideology; ideological style of politics; tradition of poltical behaviour

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to relief Michael Oakeshott’s contribution to the reaffirmation of conservative perspective on political education, as part of the political activity which involves a specific type of knowledge and also as part incorporated in the understanding of politics. It presents Oakeshott’s critical detaching from the understanding of politics as a purely empirical activity and from the ideological style of politics. Finally it indicates the components of knowledge involved in political activity and of appropriate political education proposed by Oakeshott: the profound knowledge of the own country tradition of political behaviour, the knowledge of the politics of other contemporary societies, the philosophical study.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 153
  • Page Range: 16-23
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian