The Theory Of Oakeshott’ Freedom

Oakeshott was known as the most original academic political philosophers in the 20 th century. Freedom thought is the core of the whole thought. In other words, the most important thought of Oakeshott is how human can possession freedom under the circumstances of rationalism flooding and pluralism. However, the freedom thought Oakeshott did not attract enough attention to academics. Choose the topic for research, through constructing Oakeshott’s freedom thought system, reveal his unique position in the western political thought development. Furthermore, refraction to the reality of the development of world politics, It is not only has certain theoretical value, it has a certain practical significance.Freedom is the core of the thesis, it’s make use of the abundant literature, combing Oakeshott’s life and background, trying to get freedom thought of historical background and social factors. Adopt the method of deductive reasoning, from epistemology, epistemology, ethics three respects, this paper analyzes the philosophy foundation Oakeshott freedom; On the basis of this, construct the Oakeshott freedom thought system, namely the connotation of freedom, the general conditions of freedom, the enemies of freedom and the content of the freedom. In the end, employing comparative method, put Oakeshott between liberalism and conservatism, To compare free and traditional, freedom and rights, freedom and the rule of law, freedom and rationality, freedom and civil association, further clarify the Oakeshott features of freedom thought, Analyzed Oakeshott inheritance and transcendence of liberalism, in the end, make the evaluation of Oakeshott’freedom thought.