Comments on: Burkeanism and McCain http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:28:16 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Protestant Pontifications » Instant replay in baseball? A case for the human element http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633&cpage=1#comment-658 Protestant Pontifications » Instant replay in baseball? A case for the human element Mon, 26 May 2008 23:20:03 +0000 http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633#comment-658 [...] it all” argument. My, how this idiocy keeps coming back. Haven’t I dealt with this before? As for the charge of sentimentality, I readily welcome it! Would that more people in this [...] [...] it all” argument. My, how this idiocy keeps coming back. Haven’t I dealt with this before? As for the charge of sentimentality, I readily welcome it! Would that more people in this [...]

]]> By: EdBlog » Blog Archive » Burkeanism Blogfest http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633&cpage=1#comment-646 EdBlog » Blog Archive » Burkeanism Blogfest Sun, 11 May 2008 16:27:52 +0000 http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633#comment-646 [...] Conservatism Dale Carpenter: Is Everyone Burkean Now? A Few Final Thoughts on Burkean Conservatism Mark: Burkeanism and McCain addthis_url = [...] [...] Conservatism Dale Carpenter: Is Everyone Burkean Now? A Few Final Thoughts on Burkean Conservatism Mark: Burkeanism and McCain addthis_url = [...]

]]> By: Nathan D. Hitchen, B.A. http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633&cpage=1#comment-645 Nathan D. Hitchen, B.A. Sat, 10 May 2008 02:37:45 +0000 http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633#comment-645 Rauch spends a lot more time describing Burkean conservatism than he does arguing that McCain is in fact a Burkean. I think he's found an interesting thread on which to pull McCain into a Burkean tapestry, but he (or someone) needs to do a little more. The way is to show how McCain isn't an ideologue--I would argue that he is not--but a tempremental conservative that believes in realism and pragmatism... and doesn't understand economics. Darn. Rauch spends a lot more time describing Burkean conservatism than he does arguing that McCain is in fact a Burkean. I think he’s found an interesting thread on which to pull McCain into a Burkean tapestry, but he (or someone) needs to do a little more. The way is to show how McCain isn’t an ideologue–I would argue that he is not–but a tempremental conservative that believes in realism and pragmatism… and doesn’t understand economics. Darn.

]]> By: Roach http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633&cpage=1#comment-644 Roach Tue, 06 May 2008 05:07:40 +0000 http://www.protestantpontifications.com/?p=633#comment-644 There is a world of difference between ideologues who put a single social goal--equality, liberty, prosperity--above all others, and then say we must move deliberately, if slowly, in that direction. In other words, Fabianism of one kind or another is not Burkeanism. Burke would be content to leave well enough alone; he is skeptical of any view of society that puts one value above all the other goods of society; and he is a traditionalist not simply for reasons of nostalgia or prudence, but because he is skeptical that we can see the big picture. For Burke, the species is wise and the individual, particularly the statesman, is often wrong. He's wrong directly in proportion to his lack of humility and respect for the wisdom, manifest and latent, in whatever it is he has inherited from the past. As for his concerns for reform, they are as much restorationist as they are in any sense liberal, as in his desire to restore the pre-colonial structures of society in India and Ireland out of a sense of justice and realism with respect to the character of these nations' peoples in both cases. There is a world of difference between ideologues who put a single social goal–equality, liberty, prosperity–above all others, and then say we must move deliberately, if slowly, in that direction. In other words, Fabianism of one kind or another is not Burkeanism. Burke would be content to leave well enough alone; he is skeptical of any view of society that puts one value above all the other goods of society; and he is a traditionalist not simply for reasons of nostalgia or prudence, but because he is skeptical that we can see the big picture. For Burke, the species is wise and the individual, particularly the statesman, is often wrong. He’s wrong directly in proportion to his lack of humility and respect for the wisdom, manifest and latent, in whatever it is he has inherited from the past.

As for his concerns for reform, they are as much restorationist as they are in any sense liberal, as in his desire to restore the pre-colonial structures of society in India and Ireland out of a sense of justice and realism with respect to the character of these nations’ peoples in both cases.

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