Abstract
This article sets out to idealize the liberal understanding of a ‘civil society’ after the fashion exploited by the philosophical idealist Michael Oakeshott in his account of the conservative features of what he understood to be a ‘civil association’.1 As a tradition of ideological writing liberalism has no more than the thematic continuity of an evolving doctrine that is subject to the changing historical circumstances of its teaching. However, in so far as the axiomatic presuppositions of liberal individualism can be shown to form one coherent whole, the suggestion is that they have a truth value of equal philosophical significance to those of Oakeshott's ideological conservatism.2
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