On Human Conduct by Michael Oakeshott
On Human Conduct is composed of three connected essays. Each has its own concern: the first with theoretical understanding, and with human conduct in general; the second with an ideal mode of human relationship which the author has called civil association; and the third with that ambiguous, historic association commonly called a modern European state. Running through the work is Professor Oakshott's belief in philosophical reflection as an adventure: the adventure of one who seeks to understand in other terms what he already understands, and where the understanding is sought is a disclosure of the conditions of the understanding enjoyed and not a substitute for it. Its most appropriate expression is an essay, which, he writes, 'does not dissemble the conditionality of the conclusions it throws up and although it may enlighten it does not instruct.'-
Punishment and Modern Society
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The Language of Music
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Indirect Procedures
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Modern Music and After
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Shakespearean Negotiations
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Interpreting Northern Ireland
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British Writers of the Thirties
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Victorian Feminists
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I Saw the World End
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Explaining and Understanding International Relations
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The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace
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The Morality of Freedom
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Homer on Life and Death
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Pro Caelio
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The Woman Reader 1837-1914
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The Operas of Verdi: Volume 2: From Il Trovatore to La Forza del destino
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New Testament Theology
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The Music of Stravinsky
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The Operas of Verdi: Volume 1: From Oberto to Rigoletto
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Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance
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Frogs
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The Mind Matters
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The Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400
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Mozart's Symphonies
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The Making of Moral Theology
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Medieval English Prose for Women
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The First World War and International Politics
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Portrait of Elgar
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The Creative Suffering of God
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The Socialist System
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The Gods in Epic
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The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas
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The Music of Brahms
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The Music of Chopin
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Ars Amatoria, Book I
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The Medieval Expansion of Europe
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The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
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Poverty and Piety in an English Village
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Doing the Business
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The Piano: A History
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Wise Choices, Apt Feelings
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The Making of the National Poet
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The Vision Glorious
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The Thought of Thomas Aquinas
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The Right to Private Property
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The Macedonian State
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The Medieval Crown of Aragon
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Discerning the Mystery
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Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard
`Oakeshott presents three essays: on the theoretical understanding of human conduct, on the civil condition as the ideal mode of human association, and on the modern European state.. this book is rather like a long elegant conversation - sometimes rather abstract, always with a keen eye for concrete exemplification, learned, analytical, and full of trenchant insights.' Library Journal
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198277583 |
| ISBN 10 | 019827758X |
| Title | On Human Conduct |
| Author | Michael Oakeshott |
| Series | Clarendon Paperbacks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1991-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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