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Michael Oakeshott

Michael Oakeshott
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Born Michael Joseph Oakeshott
(1901-12-11)11 December 1901
Chelsfield, United Kingdom
Died 19 December 1990(1990-12-19) (aged 89)
Acton, United Kingdom
Alma mater

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

London School of Economics
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School
Main interests

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of law.

His father, Joseph Oakeshott, was a civil servant and a major member of the Fabian Society. George Bernard Shaw was a friend. Michael Oakeshott attended St. George's School, Harpenden from 1912 to 1920. He enjoyed his schooldays, and the Headmaster Cecil Grant later became a friend.

During 1920, Oakeshott went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to read History, where he obtained an MA and subsequently became a Fellow. While at Cambridge, he admired the British idealist philosophers J. M. E. McTaggart and John Grote, and the medieval historian Zachary Nugent Brooke. The historian Herbert Butterfield was a contemporary and fellow member of the Junior Historians society.

Oakeshott was dismayed by the political extremism that occurred in Europe during the 1930s, and his surviving lectures from this period reveal a dislike of National Socialism and Marxism.


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