Morality and Politics in Modern Europe

By - Oakeshott, Michael

Floor - Floor 1

Published - New Haven : Yale University Press, 1993.

ISBN 10 - 0300056443

ISBN 13 - 9780300056440

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Political ethics. Individualism.

Shelf No - 14

Call Number - 320.5094 OAK

Physical Description - xii, 115 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes - Lectures delivered 1958. Includes index.

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In 'Morality and politics in modern Europe', Oakeshott argues that two conflicting moralities underlie two opposed understandings of the office of government in modern Europe. On one hand is the morality of individuality, according to which the role of government is to frame and enforce rules of law that enable individuals to invent and pursue in peace their own diverse projects. On the other is the morality of collectivism, by which government is interpreted as the manager of a unified enterprise whose function is to provide for the community, regarded as an organic whole that pursues a single project to which all other activities are subordinate.

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