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100 1 $aCallahan, Gene.$0(uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003104776$0(uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n2003104776
245 10 $aOakeshott on Rome and America /$cGene Callahan.
260 $aExeter :$bImprint Academic ;$aCharlottesville, VA :$bimprint academic Philosophy Documentation Center,$c2012.
300 $a227 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aBritish idealist studies Series 1 : Oakeshott 12
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [198]-210) and index
505 00 $g1$tPolitics as the Crow Flies$g10 --$tWas Oakeshott's critique merely an apology for conservatism?$g10 --$tThe rationalist 'founders'$g12 --$tA further examination of the rationalist character$g16 --$tAn example of rationalism in a modern, liberal democracy$g22 --$tWhat is the character of 'anti-rationalist' politics?$g25 --$tConclusion$g28 --$g2$tThe Development of Oakeshotf's Critique of Rationalism$g29 --$tExperience and Its Modes$g29 --$tThe Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism$g31 --$tMorality and Politics in Modern Europe$g37 --$tOn Human Conduct$g39 --$tAristotle on practice versus theory$g43 --$tO'Neill on abstraction versus idealization$g45 --$tConclusion$g47 --$g3$tMisunderstanding Oakeshott$g48 --$tSome typical criticisms$g48 --$tTraditionalism as an apology for the status quo$g48 --$tTraditionalism as denigrating the role of rational reflection$g51 --$tIs pragmatic politics sufficient when serious reform is called for?$g55 --$t'Non-ideological politics' as covertly ideological$g56 --$tF. A. Hayek: 'Why I am not a conservative'$g63 --$tConclusion$g70 --$g4$tConstitutionalism and Oakeshott$g71 --$tConstitutionalism$g72 --$tThe varieties of constitutions$g77 --$tThe case for constitutionalism$g80 --$tConstitutions as embodying a priori natural rights: Rothbard$g82 --$tConstitutions as contracts I: Rawls$g85 --$tConstitutions as contracts II: Buchanan and Tullock$g89 --$tConstitutions as coordinating devices: Hardin$g94 --$g5$tThe Roman Republic as Pragmatic Polity$g100 --$tDid the Roman republic have the pragmatic character Oakeshott attributed to it?$g101 --$tDoes a pragmatic polity have the resources to respond to changing conditions?$g106 --$tThe Roman government as representative$g110 --$g6$tThe Roman Revolution: Could the Embrace of Rationalist Principles Have Saved the Republic?$g113 --$tWhat was the 'Roman revolution'?$g114 --$tDoes the failure of the reforms of the Gracchi brothers exhibit a shortcoming of pragmatic politics?$g118 --$tGaius Marius and Sulla: planning to halt the revolution proves fruitless$g123 --$tThe ascendancy of ideological politics$g127 --$tOakeshott's understanding of the Roman revolution$g133 --$tThe importance of the Roman revolution for the American republic$g136 --$tWould the employment of rationalist designing have been an effective treatment for the ills of the Roman republic?$g137 --$tConclusion$g142 --$g7$tRationalism in the American Founding$g143 --$tFrom Rome to America through Florence and England$g144 --$tMachiavelli and Florence$g145 --$tThe English transit and Locke$g147 --$tDid the American founders exhibit Oakeshottian rationalism?$g151 --$tAmerican political thought and the founding$g152 --$tSlaves and women$g156 --$tIt's not rationalism all the way down$g157 --$tIt was all planned$g159 --$tDoes Burke's understanding of the 'American situation' contradict Oakeshott's?$g159 --$tConclusion$g161 --$g8$tWere the American Founders Able to Realize Their Design?$g162 --$tThe case of Jefferson$g162 --$tThe rationalist Jefferson$g163 --$tThe practical Jefferson$g165 --$tSlavery$g165 --$tFreedom of the press$g167 --$tThe Louisiana purchase$g168 --$tThe Burr conspiracy$g170 --$tThe embargo$g172 --$tIs hypocrisy a reasonable explanation for the Jeffersonian paradox?$g173 --$tThe crisis of the election of 1800$g174 --$tThe continuing failure of the constitution to realize its authors' designs$g181 --$tThe modern obsession with constitutional design and instrumental republicanism$g186 --$tConclusion$g191.
600 10 $aOakeshott, Michael,$d1901-1990.$tRationalism in politics.
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650 0 $aRationalism.$0(uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111520
650 0 $aConstitutional law$zUnited States$0(uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139986
650 0 $aConstitutional law$zEuropean Union countries$0(uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100277
651 0 $aRome$xPolitics and government.$0(uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115178
830 0 $aBritish idealist studies.$nSeries 1,$pOakeshott ;$v12.$0(uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003086234$0(uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|no2003086234
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