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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501721885
035 _a(DE-B1597)514769
035 _a(OCoLC)1083571581
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aJC573
_b.K44 1998
072 7 _aPHI019000
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082 0 4 _a320.52
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKekes, John
_eautore
245 1 2 _aA Case for Conservatism /
_cJohn Kekes.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2001
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. The Conservative Attitude --
_t2. What Is Conservatism? --
_t3. Approximating the Good --
_t4. Avoiding Evil --
_t5. The Enforcement of Morality --
_t6. Moral Tradition and Moral Identity --
_t7. Moral Authority --
_t8. The Ideal of Justice --
_t9. The Basic Beliefs --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aConservatism
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aConservatism.
650 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Political.
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