PHY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Russell Kirk, Voluntary Society, Utopia
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Lecture: we are not isolated, competitive individuals. Engages in a step of all creators of shadows (rhetoric assertion): )llusion that it"s all about you. We are nurtured, and benefit from other"s work. Principle #1 the conservative believes that there exists a moral order all things. Attacks modern times: we should not have big ambitions, we should not aspire to be more than what talents were given to us. Human nature is constant and moral truths are permanent. A society that is governed by this enduring moral order, and by a strong sense of right and wrong, is a good society. Principle #2 the conservative adheres to custom, convention, and continuity. Convention allows us to avoid disputes about rights and duties. When old customs, conventions and continuity are effaced, new customs, conventions, and continuity must replace them. Principle #3 conservatives believe in what may be called the principle of prescription.
