“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 characteristics." They are nothing more than "footprints left behind by agents responding to their emergent situations, footprints which are only somewhat less evanescent than the transactions in which they emerged" (OHC ioo).” — Terry Nardin Copy Share
“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
