POT 3302 Lecture 10: TraditionalConservatism
16 Mar 2017
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Traditional conservatism, edmund burke (1729/1730-1797, wrote the reflections on the french revolution, negative view of human nature (1) human nature is not a changeable issue. There is only so much that can be changed: imperfectability and fatalism (1) you can"t eradicate the bad features of a person. You shouldn"t hope for too much out of politics. It is limited by the material it has to deal with imperfect human beings: an enduring moral order (1) central on religion. Nothing to do with what is going on in the world at the time. (2) found in many conservative writings: positive view of hierarchy and authority (1) aristocracy or natural aristocracy : burke and john. Adams (2) there is an elitism in burke"s writings. This is highly at tension with liberalism: centrality of affect/feeling over reason as principal motivator of. Human behavior (1) they don"t think that human reason is the be all end all.
