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The Autonomous Institution

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The Meaning of Conservatism
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I have suggested that it is part of conservatism to resist the loss of ideology. The ‘value-free’ world is not a human world: it contains no intimation of society. But how should ideology be generated, and what form should it take? This is not, to repeat, a question of policy, but a question of dogma, a question of the fundamental suppositions at work in determining the particular political choice.

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© 1984 Roger Scruton

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Scruton, R. (1984). The Autonomous Institution. In: The Meaning of Conservatism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17640-3_8

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