La ética de la autoconservación y la teoría de los deberes políticos en el Leviatán de Hobbes by Francisco Cortéz Rodas

“…Para exponer el argumento político del Leviatán de Thomas Hobbes, se presenta una interpretación de su doctrina –desarrollada por Alfred Taylor, Howard Warrender y Michael Oakeshott. Según esta interpretación, la ética hobbesiana -desarrollada en la teoría de las leyes de naturaleza-, una vez separada de su psicología egoísta, se manifiesta como una ética deontológica muy estricta, que se puede pensar muy cercana a la de Kant. …”
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Reclaiming Liberal Education by Yannis Hadzigeorgiou

“…First, to provide a meaning for the notion of liberal education by drawing upon, and discussing briefly, the ideas of three British philosophers, namely, Paul Hirst, Richard Stanley Peters, and Michael Oakeshott. And second, to discuss the need for an updated concept of liberal education, by pointing out the shortcomings of the traditional/classical concept of liberal education, in the context of contemporary reality. …”
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Protagoras on democracy and the rule of law by Giorgini, Giovanni

“…Indeed, his view about democracy and knowledge is very similar to the theoretical foundation of liberalism in contemporary authors such as Friedrich von Hayek and Michael Oakeshott.…”

Ideology, language and the politics of time by Ewing, A

“…The third puts Koselleck in conversation with two British political thinkers with whom he did not engage—J. S. Mill and Michael Oakeshott—in an effort to unpack contestations of historical time in their respective works. …”

El populismo como espectro de la democracia: una respuesta a Canovan by Benjamín Arditi

“…Su argumento parte de la tesis de Michael Oakeshott de que la modernidad política se caracteriza por la interacción entre dos estilos políticos distintos, el de la fe y el del escepticismo. …”
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Dewey on Seriousness, Playfulness and the Role of the Teacher by Adrian Skilbeck

“…It is to this that I turn through consideration of conversation and mutuality in the work of Stanley Cavell via Michael Oakeshott’s observations about seriousness and playfulness in conversation and further comments offered by Paul Standish on what it means to say something.…”
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