https://doi.org/10.4081/ilpolitico.2021.568
OAKESHOTT AND RATIONALISM IN POLITICS
Published: June 7, 2021
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The attack on rationalism in politics constitutes the core of Oakeshott's theoretical interests, and practical concerns, in the 1950s. By the term rationalism he means the supposed unfettered and unprejudiced use of reason and the faith that in this way a certain improvement in the human condition will be achieved. In his reconstruction, the first author to propose the use of reason, sharpened by the inductive method and purified of prejudices, as an instrument of man's conquest of nature was Francis Bacon; an instrumental reason that had wiped out the prejudices deriving from society, from the principle of authority, from common opinions (the various types of idola).
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Giorgini, G. (2021). OAKESHOTT AND RATIONALISM IN POLITICS. Il Politico, 254(1), 131–133. https://doi.org/10.4081/ilpolitico.2021.568