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Michael Oakeshott

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Michael Oakeshott
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Oakeshott's essays, especially "On Being Conservative" (1956), treat conservatism as a disposition to enjoy the present rather than a programme, and his "Rationalism in Politics" criticised plans of every kind, Hayek's included. He described The Road to Serfdom as a plan to resist all planning.
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