To: D-fendr; PatrickHenry; ClaireSolt
Good point, D-fendr
Add to this yet another key understanding of conservatism: it recognizes the imperfectability of human nature and therefore rejects the false hope of an ideal order (so often promised by modern isms) that it would produce "given time plus chance."
According to Edmund Burke, a principal forerunner of conservatism, the moral perfectibility of human nature in this life is atheism, the moral imperfection of human nature theism.
76 posted on
07/23/2006 11:47:32 AM PDT by
cornelis
To: cornelis
Add to this yet another key understanding of conservatism: it recognizes the imperfectability of human nature and therefore rejects the false hope of an ideal order (so often promised by modern isms) that it would produce "given time plus chance."
How does this relate to the theory of evolution?
78 posted on
07/23/2006 11:54:44 AM PDT by
Dimensio
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To: cornelis
There is no "ideal order" in evolution, it doesn't have a teleological purpose. It's a mechanism.
127 posted on
07/23/2006 1:48:16 PM PDT by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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