Dalla condizione civile alle origini della comunità europea. Il pluralismo nomocratico di Michael Oakeshott.

This paper aims to analyze the political thought of Michael Oakeshott starting from the reading of Human conduct, in which the English philosopher analyzes the idea of ​​civil association in order to rethink on a new basis the idea of ​​political community, well-suited with the current debate raised by the problems of value pluralism ​​and decision making processes that characterize the European identity; i. e., an idea that it can only be realized in the awareness that we must set aside the belief into one overall objective or into the same comprehensive doctrine, according to a conception of rules and institutions as procedural and formal conditions, that do not reflect any particular will decide upon by the human desire to establish common needs.