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Conservatism |
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| Authors: |
Vandoros, Sotiris |
| Reviewer: |
Stavrakakis, Ioannis |
| Subject: | LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL ETHICS AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES |
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| Abstract: |
The chapter examines the precise nature of conservatism, and in particular the questioning of its ideological character by self-identified conservative thinkers. Edmund Burke's decisive contribution to the formation of conservatism as an ideology and to its self-consciousness is highlighted. It goes on to analyse the fundamental positions of conservatism in terms of imperfect human nature and the limited possibilities of reason, the defence of tradition and opposition to change, the organismic conception of society and ideas of natural inequality and social hierarchy, and the role of the state in the relationship between authoritarianism and freedom. Finally, Christian democracy and neoconservatism are presented as contemporary versions of conservative ideology.
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| Linguistic Editors: |
Krokidi, Sofia |
| Type: |
Chapter |
| Creation Date: | 2015 |
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Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4735 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Vandoros, S. (2015). Conservatism [Chapter]. In Vandoros, S. 2015. Introduction to Political Ideologies [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4735 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Is Part of: |
Introduction to Political Ideologies |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |