The Michael Oakeshott Association was founded in 1999. What began as a very modest and informal forum for discussion of Oakeshott snowballed into a fully fledged 501(c) (3) non-profit (registered in the USA). The inaugural conference of the Association took place at the London School of Economics (2001) and subsequent conferences were held at Colorado College (2003, 2006) and Jena (2007).

Philosophy of History Hence arises the fact that everything better struggles through only with difficulty, becomes effective, or meets with a hearing, but the absurd and perverse in the realm of thought, the dull and tasteless in the sphere of art, and the wicked and fraudulent in the sphere of action, really assert a supremacy that is disturbed only by brief interruptions. Arthur Schopenhauer, ...

Jacques Maritain Center : Readings On the Philosophy of History Jacques Maritain Table of Contents FOREWORD PRELIMINARY NOTE CHAPTER I: The Philosophy of History in General Is any Philosophy of History possible The Hegelian Delusion Spurious and genuine Philosophy of History Philosophy of History and Moral Philosophy adequately taken CHAPTER II: Axiomatic Formulas or Functional Laws The law of ...

The Paideia Project: Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Archive of contributed papers in the subject area of Philosophy of Economics.

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Back to main page A HISTORIAN LOOKS AT HEGEL PHILOSOPHICALLY: CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF HEGELIAN DIALECTIC, DETERMINISM, AND CONTINGENCY The philosophy of history espoused by George Frederick Hegel, philosopher and historian, has often been viewed as largely teleological. It has often been speculated that this philosophical presumption arose from the historical context of Hegel's life, whether ...