I’m reading Michael Oakeshott’s 1962 essay, “On Being Conservative”, with my public policy class, today. I came across a passage which ties into the paper I’ll be serializing here, starting tomorrow morning.
A musician may improvise music, but he would think himself hard done-by if, at the same time, he were expected to improvise an instrument.
Reference
Michael Oakeshott, “On Being Conservative” in Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, New and Expanded Edition (Carmel, Indiana: Liberty Fund, 1991), p. 421.
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