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Experience and Its Modes

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  • In Michael Oakeshott

    His first important work, Experience and Its Modes (1933), distinguishes between three main modes of understanding—the practical, the scientific, and the historical—and explores in more depth the different dimensions of the latter. On Human Conduct (1975), which many regard as his masterpiece, comprises three complex essays on human conduct,…

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