Posted by Sigismund on November 27, 2008, at 23:42:33
In reply to Descriptors » Sigismund, posted by Deputy Dinah on November 27, 2008, at 19:59:44
Conservatives of the Burke/Oakeshott persuasion might feel unease about the conflation of 'conservative' with 'right-wing'.
>Oakeshott's opposition to what he regarded as Utopian political projects is summed up in his use of the image (possibly borrowed from the Marquess of Halifax, a seventeenth-century English author whom he admired) of a metaphorical ship of state which has "neither starting-place nor appointed destination...[and where] the enterprise is to keep afloat".[2]
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