The Shapes of Liberal Thought: Oakeshott, Berlin, and Liberalism
Author(s)
Franco, Paul
Abstract
A comparison between the political philosophies of two political thinkers, Michael Oakeshott and Isaiah Berlin was done as their philosophies took shape in the context of postwar Europe and the era of the cold war. The two philosophies showed similarities in substance and both the philosophers can be characterized as pluralists and Oakeshott’s theory of civil association overcomes the problem arising from Berlin’s specification of liberalism in terms of negative liberty.
