A Case for Conservatism [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 54 (1):154-154 (2000)
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Abstract

In Against Liberalism, Kekes successfully criticized liberalism by revealing its intrinsic contradictions and its utter detachment from reality. In A Case for Conservatism, however, Kekes unsuccessfully argues for the conservative position by banishing from it any trace of metaphysics, natural law, and theology, while constraining it to a Modernist framework and an empiricist, subjectivist methodology. Moreover, Kekesian conservatism contains some of the same basic contradictions and detachment from reality as the Rawlsian liberalism he criticizes.

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