On the other hand, the article reveals that #MichaelOakeshott had three wives and countless affairs. Of course one can think deep thoughts while being a scoundrel in personal affairs, but so often our thinking is rationalisation of our personal failings...

#MichaelOakeshott "did not believe that the practical world could be understood by the rational mind alone. He was thus a fierce critic of central planning, of the ability of a government to solve the problems people could not solve themselves. He saw the hideous, self-defeating paradox of trying to change the everyday world from a distance based on a theory."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/taking-the-world-as-it-is/

#AndrewSullivan
#conservatism
#TheSpectator