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Politics of imperfection

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London; Faber and Faber; 1978Description: 105pISBN:
  • 571112854
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.52 QUI
Summary: The Politics of Imperfection, the 1976 T. S. Eliot Memorial lectures delivered at the University of Kent in Canterbury, surveys articulate conservative thought in England from Richard Hooker in the seventeenth century to Michael Oakeshott in the twentieth. It aims to show, first, that there is a continuous tradition of conservative theory whose basic principle is that man, because of his intellectual imperfections, particularly with regard to knowledge of society, should trust the social wisdom that is embodied in established institutions. Secondly, it is argued that, although many conservative theorists have been themselves devout, and all have been favorable to the established church as an institution, positive religious belief is not essential to conservatism. Such sceptics as Halifax and Bolingbroke are as near the centre of the tradition as believers like Hooker and Burke.
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The Politics of Imperfection, the 1976 T. S. Eliot Memorial lectures delivered at the University of Kent in Canterbury, surveys
articulate conservative thought in England from Richard Hooker in the seventeenth century to Michael Oakeshott in the twentieth. It aims to show, first, that there is a continuous tradition of conservative theory whose basic principle is that man, because of his intellectual imperfections, particularly with regard to knowledge of society, should trust the social wisdom that is embodied in established institutions. Secondly, it is argued that, although many conservative theorists have been themselves devout, and all have been favorable to the established church as an institution, positive religious belief is not essential to conservatism. Such sceptics as Halifax and Bolingbroke are as near the centre of the tradition as believers like Hooker and Burke.

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