Scott Adams teaches Oakeshott (sort of…)

The importance of practical knowledge in all its context-relative glory:

And yet, is there something fishy about Oakeshott’s vaguely Aristotelian inference that we learn to act ‘morally’ by imitating those we perceive to be moral experts?

On the other hand, maybe this points towards something Oakeshott probably rejects in Aristotle, namely the latter’s idea that the virtuousness of the phronimos ultimately stands apart from the particular tradition of moral behaviour he acts within.  It makes no sense, then, to see the true moral expert as someone who would be virtuous whatever the context, from which you may further infer that the moral exemplars relevant to yourself must always be your predecessors in the particular tradition you act within, not any other…