Background
Minogue, Kenneth Robert was born on September 11, 1930 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Son of Dennis Francis Minogue and Eunice Pearl Porter. arrived in England, 1951.
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Minogue, Kenneth Robert was born on September 11, 1930 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Son of Dennis Francis Minogue and Eunice Pearl Porter. arrived in England, 1951.
Bachelor, Sydney (Australia) University, 1949. Bachelor of Science in Economics, London School of Economics, 1955.
From 1955 to 1956 he taught at the University of Exeter, and from 1959 taught at the London School of Economics. Minogue wrote academic essays and books on a great range of problems in political theory. His 1963 book The Liberal Mind, about the perversion of the liberal label by radical leftists became popular internationally.
Minogue edited and introduced the Everyman"s Library edition of Hobbes" Leviathan, was a columnist for The Times and The Times Higher Education Supplement, and contributed to The New Criterion and Daily Mail.
In 1976 he issued a report to help modernize Shiraz University in Iran. In 1986 Minogue presented a 6-part television program on Channel 4 about free market economics called The New Enlightenment.
He was Senior Research Fellow with the Social Affairs Unit in London. He wrote a study on Maori-Pākehā relations (the latter is the Maori term for New Zealanders of European descent) for the New Zealand Business Roundtable which was published in 1998 published as Waitangi Morality Reality.
From 1991 to 1993 Minogue was chairman of the euro-sceptic Bruges Group.
From 2000, he was a trustee of Civitas. He served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2010. He was also involved with the Centre for Policy Studies and the European Foundation.
He died, aged 82, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
(In A Very Short Introduction to Politics, Kenneth Minogue...)
( The term "ideology" can cover almost any set of ideas, ...)
( The term "ideology" can cover almost any set of ideas, ...)
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( One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was t...)
( Taking on the challenge of the postmodernists of polit...)
( Taking on the challenge of the postmodernists of politi...)
(Modern Political Philosophy)
Minogue argued that genuine liberalism rests on the tradition of thinkers like Adam Smith, Benjamin Constant, Adam Ferguson, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill et al., who built the foundation for a conservative perspective.
Minogue defended civility, decency, and moderation against globalists and leftists, and advocated an honest and transparent public sphere where individuals can freely pursue their own ideas of happiness. On Minogue"s legacy, British philosopher Roger Scruton writes that Minogue was "no mere academic" but "a model of the conservative activist" because "he was in the business of defending old-fashioned civility against ideological rage, and he believed this was the real meaning of the freedom that the English-speaking peoples have created and enjoyed.".
Chairman Bruges Group, 1991-1993. Member Garrick Club.
Married Valerie Pearson Hallett, June 14, 1954. Children: Nicholas Robert, Eunice Karen Minogue.