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| Title: |
A storm from paradise: Liberalism and the problem of time |
| Author: |
Segal, Jacob |
| Appeared in: |
Critical review |
| Paging: | Volume 8 (1994) nr. 1 pages 23-48 |
| Year: |
1994 |
| Contents: |
The tendency of classical politics to embed the individual in universal and transcendental patterns of action followed in part from the recognition of the futility of unpredictable action oriented to the individual's transient personal future. By contrast, F. A. Hayek argues for liberalism and the rule of law because it is instrumental to the achievement of human ends. Michael Oakeshott, however, claims that freedom is a value in itself, and that liberalism should emphasize moral autonomy because the moral life is public and not oriented to external ends. The moral life intimates a form of self-sufficiency in action, and self-sufficient action is timeless in the sense of being indifferent to either the past or the future. Oakeshott returns liberalism to the problems of classical politics without recourse to the dictatorial imposition of a single substantive good. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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