Sartre's Radicalism and Oakeshott's Conservatism The Duplicity of Freedom
Description
If man has no nature - if our intellect and understanding are products of our own activities - do we possess a key to self-modification? Are we free to re-make mankind? Sartre champions the romantic idea that we can - by sheer determination - begin afresh. Oakeshott is struck by the vandalism of such a project - he seeks to defend political culture from degradation by meddling academics. The Radical and Conservative understanding of social order and the human self are compared in this in-depth analysis of two contrasting philosophies.
Keywords
PhilosophyMind & Body
1998Book
Author(s)Anthony Farr
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333684498
LanguageEnglish
