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"the conservative" Britain and Germany

It would have been too much of a under taking to capture the definition of Conservatism on a whole in the content of Europe, so I decided to narrow down to the states of Britain and Germany where conservative government and thinkers were most predominate. General definitions of conservatism are difficult and ultimately, fruitless, since conservatism is a national phenomenon. Liberalism and socialism, on the other hand, is to much lesser extent the product of particular political tradition or religious patters, or of special institutional structures which, from a conservative standpoint, set future social and political life for people.
Most British conservatives always remained within the confines of the natural law tradition (Organic ideal), while German conservatism developed in opposition to this same philosophical idea. Conservatism is an historical phenomenon which draws its conceptions of nature, authority, freedom, property, and religion for example from the special blend of h...

Posted by: John Mayes

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