Submitted by Marilene Donadel (marilene.donadel@unioeste.br) on 2019-03-27T21:57:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael_Faro_2018.pdf: 729878 bytes, checksum: 30ca733e782aaa94d6ecf7c5debfa0ca (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2019-03-27T21:57:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael_Faro_2018.pdf: 729878 bytes, checksum: 30ca733e782aaa94d6ecf7c5debfa0ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-12-19 / Michael Oakeshott presents the essence of his conservative thinking in an essay entitled On Being Conservative. The study objective was to analyze how conservatism is expressed in the author´s ideas, starting from a brief analysis from what constituted conservative thinking in general, following through how the way that conservative principles appear in the Oakeshott work. It is about a bibliographical review that intends to understand and present the main elements of conservative thinking based on the approach of an author who has been read and divulged in Brazil, because it was able to show that psychologically human beings express conservative dispositions that could, in their view, justify a specific type of political conservatism: to broaden liberalism in the economy, keeping, however, conservative values and traditions in terms of customs and behaviors, that is, a posture that can be defined as liberal conservatism. / Michael Oakeshott apresenta a essência de seu pensamento conservador em um ensaio intitulado On Being Conservative. O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar como o conservadorismo se expressa nas ideias desse autor, partindo de uma breve análise do que constituiu o pensamento conservador em geral, seguindo para o modo como os princípios conservadores aparecem na obra de Oakeshott. Trata-se de uma revisão bibliográfica que pretende compreender e apresentar os principais elementos do pensamento conservador a partir da abordagem de um autor que vem sendo lido e divulgado no Brasil, pois foi capaz de mostrar que psicologicamente os seres humanos expressam disposições conservadoras que poderiam, na sua visão, justificar um tipo de conservadorismo político específico: ampliar o liberalismo na economia mantendo, contudo, valores e tradições conservadoras em termos de costumes e comportamentos, quer dizer, uma postura que pode ser definida como conservadorismo liberal.

The thesis focuses on the conservative canon and analyses the validity of exceptionalist claims of conservative thinking through a deconstructive reading of conservatism. The comparison of classical and radical conservatisms provides the grounds for this analysis. After the introductory chapter, the second chapter of this thesis focuses on the general characteristics of the conservative ideology. It consists of three sub-sections. The first of these presents the characteristics of classical conservatism, while the second turns to consider radical conservatism. Then, in the third sub-section, a discussion of the similarities and differences between these two conservatisms leads to a proposed definition of a core of the conservative canon. Here, it is argued that the epistemological and ontological imperfection of individuals can be regarded as the definitive core, or as the precept which the justification of conservative policies relies upon. The third chapter then focuses on the views of a number of significant figures in the development of political thought on ideology, which is used by these thinkers as a critical tool. A narrative of the historical developments in the analyses of ideology and ideologies is presented in this chapter. In the last part of the chapter, Derridian thinking is introduced. The fourth chapter problematises conservative exceptionalism, or the belief that there is a fundamental difference between conservatism and other ideologies. This chapter is founded upon the analyses of the previous two chapters, using the Derridian reading and referring to the characteristics and commonalities of the conservative canon presented. In this chapter, radicalism is argued to be a persistent theme in conservative thinking, and conservatism is claimed to be founded upon its impossibility.