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Conservatism: The Desire to Conserve | - Response to social, political, and economic change - Edmund Burke against the French Revolution of 1789 - 1800s: Conservatives react to industrialization, liberalism, and socialism |
Conservatism: Tradition | - Support for existing institutions and practices - Suspicion of radical change - Skepticism about political knowledge |
Conservatism: Human Imperfection | - We are imperfect and not changeable by social engineering - Psychologically dependent - Morally imperfect - Intellectually limited |
Conservatism: Organic Society | - Society is a living organism - Society is prior to, and more than, the individual - Do not tamper with the social fabric - Society as a sacred intergenerational covenant |
Maistre’s Authoritarian Conservatism | - Reaction against the French Revolution - “Throne and Altar”: Monarchy and Church - Against Enlightenment rationality - Authority as absolute, mysterious, and terrifying (Example: the executioner/hangman) |
Conservatism: The Rhetoric of Reaction | - Three types of objection to revolutionary change (Albert Hirschman) 1) Perversity 2) Futility 3) Jeopardy |
Libertarian Conservatism | - Reject traditional conservative emphasis on tradition, authority, and organic society - Defend private property rights and laissez-faire free market economy - Strong state to maintain public order |
Conservatism: New Right | - Combines two contrasting ideologies traditions: neoliberalism and neoconservatism - Liberal New Right: private, good; public, bad - Conservative New Right: social order, family values, military strength |
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