Burke celebrated just prejudice and the moral imagination. He opposed rationalism and radical reform because he feared that such efforts would sacrifice the wisdom of the ages in order to promote the wisdom of the age. Consequently, Burke promoted gradual change and reform that maintained continuity with the experiences and accomplishments of the past... Babbitt placed the primary work of civilization not in the ability of humans to reason but in their capacity to abide by a higher harmonizing will that was distinct from a lower centrifugal will... Character, more than rational constructions of ideal constitutions and societies, was the vital ingredient to the rightly ordered community. Babbitt connected ancient thinkers like Aristotle and Cicero to the Christian tradition, to Burke, and to Buddha and the East. - Excerpt Let It Be Known That CONSERVATISM Does NOT Necessarily Equal The Contemporary Republican Party! In Fact The Contemporary Republican Party Has Probably Become Increasingly Less So Since The 70s with the Arrival of The so-called Noe-Conservative, who have placed more confidence in Trotskyite thinking then Kirkian Thought.
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