The inversion of the relationship between opinion and action and its political consequences; Emphasizing the views of Wittgenstein and Michael Oakeshott

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The history of political thought has always been influenced by a definite view on the relationship between theory and political practice. Based on this point of view, opinion has precedence over action and thus every political action needs to follow a political theory in the first step. However, this classical philosophical premise has been challenged by later philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Oakeshott. In this regard, this fundamental question can be asked that "according to Wittgenstein and Oakeshott, what is the relationship between opinion and action and what could be its political consequences?" The hypothesis of the research is that "Wittgenstein and Oakeshott, contrary to the common practice, believe in the superiority of action over opinion and overturning the traditional view of opinion over action, and according to that, politics moves away from the field of pure abstraction and approaches everyday life and human experience. Thus, our understanding of political theory and its relationship with political action undergo fundamental changes. The research method is comparative and the theoretical framework is the anthropological theory of Wittgenstein and Oakshat, that is, Botician man.

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