In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes
argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure
by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes
a compelling case for conservatism as the best alternative. His is
the first systematic description and defense of the basic
assumptions underlying conservative thought.
Conservatism, Kekes maintains, is concerned with the political
arrangements that enable members of a society to live good lives.
These political arrangements are based on skepticism about
ideologies, pluralism about values, traditionalism about
institutions, and pessimism about human perfectibility.
The political morality of conservatism requires the protection
of universal conditions of all good lives, social conditions that
vary with societies, and individual conditions that reflect
differences in character and circumstance. Good lives, according to
Kekes, depend equally on pursuing possibilities that these
conditions establish and on setting limits to their violations.
Attempts to make political arrangements reflect these basic
tenets of conservatism are unavoidably imperfect. Kekes concludes,
however, that they represent a better hope for the future than any
other possibility.
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