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    Despite drawing on conservative thought, Mill remained a ... — Carmelics
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    Despite drawing on conservative thought, Mill remained a liberal and not a conservative.

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    • 1.Mill's perfectionism contrasts with conservative pessimism about human nature.
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    • 2.Mill rejected intuitionism, which fosters conservatism by treating deeply held beliefs as self-justifying.
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    • 3.Mill held that inveterate beliefs must be justified by reason, not Burkean prejudice.
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    • 1.Mill's doctrine of the 'tyranny of prevailing opinion' in On Liberty mirrors Burke's concern that majoritarian sentiment threatens inherited social wisdom.
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    • 2.Mill's advocacy for plural voting in Considerations on Representative Government reflects a conservative distrust of equal democratic capacity, not liberal egalitarianism.
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    • 3.A thinker whose institutional proposals structurally privilege educated elites over democratic majorities cannot be classified as straightforwardly liberal rather than conservative.
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    • 1.Mill explicitly praised Coleridge alongside Bentham as a foundational thinker, treating conservative organicism as a necessary corrective to utilitarian abstraction.
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    • 2.Robson and Skorupski have demonstrated that Mill's conception of 'progressive beings' entails a hierarchical cultivation of character that aligns with Arnoldian conservative perfectionism, not liberal neutrality.
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    Conservatives reject the liberal’s concept of abstract, ahistorical and universal rights, derived from the nature of human agency and autonomy, and possessed even when unrecognised, for instance by slaves in Ancient Greece (on abstract rights, see for instance Gewirth 1983). For conservatives, a priori claims such as L.T. Hobhouse’s “The proper end of government is the uncovering of civil liberties”, are doubly mistaken (Hobhouse 1964 [1911]: 19); government does not have such ends, and “uncover
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