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JEL Classification: B32, B50

In his elegant essay on the tension between a singular global ethic and global ethics in the plural, Michael Ignatieff invites us to "think harder about the conflicts of principle between them." He is certainly right that harder thinking is needed: advocates of both versions of a global ethic sometimes seem locked into mutual self-righteousness. What we might call singular, or universal, ethicists often accuse pluralists of parochial atavism, while the partisans of plural, usually national, ethics think that the universalists are naive at best, arrogant at worst. Both are utterly convinced that they are right.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love -- Part One: The Conversation of Mankind -- 2. The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance -- 3. Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy -- 4. Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of History -- 5. Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott -- 6. The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott -- 7. Whatever It Turns Out to Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience -- 8. Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on Education -- Part Two: Political Philosophy -- 9. Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political Thought -- 10. Oakeshott and Hobbes -- 11. The Fate of Rationalism in Oakeshott's Thought -- 12. Oakeshott and Hayek: Situating the Mind -- 13. Oakeshott as Conservative -- 14. Oakeshott on Civil Association -- 15. Oakeshott on Law -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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