As with Sartre, the thought of Michael Oakeshott¹ is essentially concerned with political and moral issues. However, Oakeshott's way of proceeding is very different from that of the thinkers we have been discussing for he is as troubled by the authority of the intellectual as by any other form of authority. He views the academic to be a potential source of regimentation, as threatening to the vitality of man as any political or moral dogma.