ABSTRACT
Michael Oakeshott is one of the authors that the author enjoys introducing my students to. His argument, so surprisingly different from what the students are used to, immediately captivates their attention. As a rule, the students' curiosity is kept alive throughout the exposition of the argument, with countless interruptions for pertinent, often amusing, questions. The conservative disposition springs up from this attachment to one's very own, familiar way of living. This disposition implies an emphatic defence of liberty. The enterprise association or telocratic order, as the names show, is based on a unifying purpose, on a common enterprise, which initiates the voluntary gathering of its members in order to attempt to reach or pursue it. In a comprehensive and elegant essay on Michael Oakeshott, Gertrude Himmelfarb rightly observed some difficulties in the author's argument. Himmelfarb praised Oakeshott's contributions for dismantling the dogmatic rationalism of a traditional collectivist left-wing always engaged in making the government and its sphere of intervention grow.
