Michael Oakeshott

Tags: Philosopher.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott (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. He is widely regarded as one of the most important conservative thinkers of the 20th century.

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birth date

1901-12-11

birth place

Chelsfield, Bromley

death date

1990-12-19

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Margaret Thatcher, Andrew Sullivan, John N. Gray, Hayden White, Maurice Cowling, J. G. A. Pocock

influenced by

Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Edmund Burke, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Ferdinand Tönnies, F. H. Bradley, R. G. Collingwood, Georg Simmel, Wilhelm Dilthey

main interest

Philosophy of religion, Political philosophy, Intellectual history, Philosophy of history, History of philosophy, History of political thought

philosophicalSchool

Conservatism, British idealism, Liberalism