Tuesday, April 15, 2014

The origins of the conservative temperament

In an excerpt from his new book, "Enlightment 2.0", Joseph Heath gives two examples illustrating the "hubris of modern rationalism", saying:
... the conservative temperament was born, as a defence of tradition against the tendency of Enlightenment rationalism to take things apart without knowing how to put them back together again, much less improve them. [It occurs to me that another example of modern hyper-rational hubris at work can be found in the scientific claims of climate alarmism.]
Heath's idea's were a constant theme in Friedrich Hayek's writing.  His book should be a good read.

1 comment:

  1. this is extremely worrying
    Video shows large al Queda meeting in yemen - CNN
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/15/world/al-qaeda-meeting-video/index.html
    fh

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