Roy Tseng is Professor of Political Theory at National Sun Yat-SenUniversity. He specializes in political philosophy and the history ofpolitical thought. Professor Tseng is the author of The ScepticalIdealist: Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment (2003)and Subject and Reason: a Conservative Interpretation of Liberalism (2009, in Chinese), and is the editor-in-chief of Societas: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs.