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    It is not the case that Sweeping away established institutions in favor of abstract rights demonstrates a crass disregard for human nature and history

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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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    • 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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