POLS10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Michael Oakeshott, Liberal Conservatism, Classical Liberalism
4 Aug 2018
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They didn"t like the prominence of economic. Humans are fundamentally limited morally, probably mostly selfish so limited capacity for improvement, limited intellectually (might be some form of rationality but not that much) Skeptical that reason offers us the resource to give us a ground to think politically. Fixated on distilling the value of what is already there - michael oakeshott. He thinks of change and innovation as something which we should be skeptical of. Fixate on the important of minimal forms of government. Fixated on the market, the types of social goods, the market is the key agent. Letting people"s preferences guide the distribution of wealth in a society. This can also be abused (rob the rich to pay the poor?) Undermines the role that competition plays in a market. They also thinks of governments as monopolies on political power, why they would argue for electoral democracy bc it creates competition, therefore governments have to offer us better quality rule.
