Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Radical Change, Family Values, Endangerment
8 Dec 2016
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The desire to conserve: response to social, political, and economic change. Against the french revolution (1789) and wants to prevent it coming to england (cid:862)what they achieved was tyranny and large-scale (cid:373)assacre(cid:863) predicted the e(cid:374)d of revolutio(cid:374) 1800s: conservatives react to industrialization, liberalism, and socialism. We are imperfect and not changeable by social engineering. Psychologically dependant (limited by safety, order and fear of freedom) Morally imperfect (selfish, hungry for power, can only behave when enforced by order) I(cid:374)tellectually li(cid:373)ited (cid:894)gov"ts should (cid:374)ot try to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d society through ratio(cid:374)ality(cid:895) Society is a living organism (it is alive) Society is prior to, and more than, the individual. Do not tamper with the social fabric (politics should not be about introducing radical change) Reaction against the french revolution (wanted to bring back the church and monarch) Against enlightenment rationality (believes everything man makes is wretched)
