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Conservatism
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- 1Conservatism: 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 - 2Conservatism: Tradition- Support for existing institutions and practices
- Suspicion of radical change
- Skepticism about political knowledge - 3Conservatism: Human Imperfection- We are imperfect and not changeable by social engineering
- Psychologically dependent
- Morally imperfect
- Intellectually limited - 4Conservatism: 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 - 5Maistre’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) - 6Conservatism: The Rhetoric of Reaction- Three types of objection to revolutionary change (Albert Hirschman)
1) Perversity
2) Futility
3) Jeopardy - 7Libertarian 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 - 8Conservatism: 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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