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The Meaning of Conservatism (Paperback, 3rd Revised ed.)
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The Meaning of Conservatism (Paperback, 3rd Revised ed.)
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Loot Price R476
Discovery Miles 4 760
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First published in 1980, The Meaning of Conservatism is now
recognized as a major contribution to political thought, and the
liveliest and most provocative modern statement of the traditional
"paleo-conservative" position. Roger Scruton challenges those who
would regard themselves as conservatives, and also their opponents.
Conservatism, he argues, has little in common with liberalism, and
is only tenuously related to the market economy, to monetarism, to
free enterprise, or to capitalism. It involves neither hostility
toward the state, not the desire to limit the state's obligation
toward the citizen. Its conceptions of society, law, and
citizenship regard the individual not as the premise but as the
conclusion of politics. At the same time it is fundamentally
opposed to the ethic of social justice, to equality of station,
opportunity, income, and achievement, and to the attempt to bring
major institutions of society - such as schools and universities -
under government control. Its root conceptions are those of
loyalty, allegiance, community, and tradition. The conservative
vision of society is one in which autonomous institutions and
private initiative predominate, and in which the law protects the
shared values that bind the community together, rather than the
rights of those who would blow the community apart.
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