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    Sweeping away established institutions in favor of abstra... — Carmelics
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    Sweeping away established institutions in favor of abstract rights demonstrates a crass disregard for human nature and history

    Democracy & GovernanceVirtue Ethics
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    • 1.Hegel's Phenomenology demonstrates that rational freedom must be actualized through historically developed institutions, not imposed abstractly.
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    • 2.Rights divorced from Sittlichkeit—the concrete ethical life of family, civil society, and state—produce empty formalism that cannot bind persons.
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    • 3.The French Revolutionary Terror confirms empirically that abstract universalism, absent mediating institutions, collapses into tyranny.
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    • 1.Burke's Reflections establishes that inherited institutions encode accumulated practical wisdom no single generation can replicate through reason alone.
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    • 2.Oakeshott's distinction between rationalist politics and the 'pursuit of intimations' shows that traditions contain inarticulate knowledge resistant to codification.
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    • 1.Abstract rules or rights uninformed by the customs and culture of a people ignore national character
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    • 2.Human nature and history are the most obvious facts that any sound political programme must reckon with
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    • 3.Prudence, not theoretical purity, is the proper guide for political action
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    Of the disagreements between Price and Wollstonecraft, on the one hand, and Burke, on the other, one of the deepest was over their respective view of the nature of civil society and of political power in general. The two friends believed that government, the rule of law, and all human relations could be simplified, explicated, and rendered transparent, and both were convinced that this was the task ahead for all lovers of liberty. For Burke, on the contrary, civil society consisted of countless
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