Abstract

GONZALEZ DE REQUENA FARRE, Juan Antonio. The Ethos of Separation and Adverbial Morality in Michael Oakeshott. Prax. filos. [online]. 2012, n.35, pp.11-37. ISSN 0120-4688.

This article explores Michael Oakeshott's philosophical response to the fragmentation of our modes of experience in modernity and to the idiomatic pluralism which modern conversation of mankind presupposes. Beyond the postmodern consecration of difference and beyond the nostalgia for pre-modern hierarchical worldviews, Oakeshott offers a philosophical reconstruction of a specifically modern and self-reflective morality, based on the recognition of the practical considerations embedded in our traditional languages of conduct and moral associations. It is an adverbial morality which invites us to practice an adverbial thinking about the contingent conditions of our activity and our understanding.

Keywords : modes of experience; epistemological pluralism; philosophy; moral rationalism; morality of individuality.

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