“In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often than not they are the occasion of profitless dispute, and when invoked as the conditions of… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“practices are displayed only in performances: a practice is the trace, the residue, of its performances. Practices are not "stable compositions of easily recognized… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.” — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.” — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
