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Andy Hamilton · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · 2025

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Author: Andy Hamilton
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedBurke's Reflections (1790) opposed claims to abstract universal rights and treated society as an inherited partnership across generations, while holding that 'a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation'.EstablishedMichael Oakeshott described conservatism as a disposition rather than a creed, and politics as the art of moving within an existing tradition rather than a science of building a perfect society.