Peter Kolozi
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231166522
- eISBN:
- 9780231544610
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231166522.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Few beliefs seem more fundamental to American conservatism than faith in the free market. Yet throughout American history, many of the major conservative intellectual and political figures have ...
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Few beliefs seem more fundamental to American conservatism than faith in the free market. Yet throughout American history, many of the major conservative intellectual and political figures have harbored deep misgivings about the unfettered market and its disruption of traditional values, hierarchies, and communities. In Conservatives Against Capitalism, Peter Kolozi traces the history of conservative skepticism about the influence of capitalism on politics, culture, and society. Kolozi discusses conservative critiques of capitalism—from its threat to the Southern way of life to its emasculating effects on American society to the dangers of free trade—analyzing the positions of a wide-ranging set of individuals, including John Calhoun, Theodore Roosevelt, Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, and Patrick J. Buchanan. He examines the ways in which conservative thought went from outright opposition to capitalism to more muted critiques, ultimately reconciling itself to the workings and ethos of the market. By analyzing the unaddressed historical and present-day tensions between capitalism and conservative values, Kolozi shows that figures regarded as iconoclasts belong to a coherent tradition, and he creates a vital new understanding of the American conservative pantheon.Less
Few beliefs seem more fundamental to American conservatism than faith in the free market. Yet throughout American history, many of the major conservative intellectual and political figures have harbored deep misgivings about the unfettered market and its disruption of traditional values, hierarchies, and communities. In Conservatives Against Capitalism, Peter Kolozi traces the history of conservative skepticism about the influence of capitalism on politics, culture, and society. Kolozi discusses conservative critiques of capitalism—from its threat to the Southern way of life to its emasculating effects on American society to the dangers of free trade—analyzing the positions of a wide-ranging set of individuals, including John Calhoun, Theodore Roosevelt, Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, and Patrick J. Buchanan. He examines the ways in which conservative thought went from outright opposition to capitalism to more muted critiques, ultimately reconciling itself to the workings and ethos of the market. By analyzing the unaddressed historical and present-day tensions between capitalism and conservative values, Kolozi shows that figures regarded as iconoclasts belong to a coherent tradition, and he creates a vital new understanding of the American conservative pantheon.
Roland Quinault (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239253
- eISBN:
- 9781846313202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239253.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter examines Gladstone's involvement in parliamentary reform. His involvement can be divided into two distinct phases: in the first phase, he was a Tory anti–reformer; and in the second ...
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This chapter examines Gladstone's involvement in parliamentary reform. His involvement can be divided into two distinct phases: in the first phase, he was a Tory anti–reformer; and in the second phase, he was a Liberal reformer. Gladstone began his parliamentary career as a Tory opponent of the 1832 Reform Act, but he became a convert to moderate reform while he was still a Peelite Tory. When he introduced the 1866 Reform Bill, he still described himself as a ‘Liberal Conservative’. Subsequently, as the leader of the Liberal party and Prime Minister, he remained a cautious and pragmatic reformer. Thus, Gladstone's attitude to reform did not advance in a simple linear progression from a stance of Tory opposition to one of Liberal support.Less
This chapter examines Gladstone's involvement in parliamentary reform. His involvement can be divided into two distinct phases: in the first phase, he was a Tory anti–reformer; and in the second phase, he was a Liberal reformer. Gladstone began his parliamentary career as a Tory opponent of the 1832 Reform Act, but he became a convert to moderate reform while he was still a Peelite Tory. When he introduced the 1866 Reform Bill, he still described himself as a ‘Liberal Conservative’. Subsequently, as the leader of the Liberal party and Prime Minister, he remained a cautious and pragmatic reformer. Thus, Gladstone's attitude to reform did not advance in a simple linear progression from a stance of Tory opposition to one of Liberal support.
Annalisa Coliva
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199658343
- eISBN:
- 9780191760983
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658343.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
In this chapter an intermediate position between Jim Pryor’s liberal conception of the architecture of empirical warrants and Crispin Wright’s conservative view is presented. The main tenets of such ...
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In this chapter an intermediate position between Jim Pryor’s liberal conception of the architecture of empirical warrants and Crispin Wright’s conservative view is presented. The main tenets of such a view, called ‘moderatism’, are presented and its consequences with respect to failure of warrant transmission explored. It is then claimed that moderatism allows one to countenance a second kind of transmission failure, different from Wright’s original variety of it. The bearing of such a view on the issue of the cogency of Moore’s proof and on the Principle of Closure for warrant is investigated. Finally, moderatism, developed along ‘internal rationalist’ lines, is brought to bear on the issue of Humean scepticism, and it is claimed that it represents a better solution to it than Wright’s appeal to the notion of entitlement.Less
In this chapter an intermediate position between Jim Pryor’s liberal conception of the architecture of empirical warrants and Crispin Wright’s conservative view is presented. The main tenets of such a view, called ‘moderatism’, are presented and its consequences with respect to failure of warrant transmission explored. It is then claimed that moderatism allows one to countenance a second kind of transmission failure, different from Wright’s original variety of it. The bearing of such a view on the issue of the cogency of Moore’s proof and on the Principle of Closure for warrant is investigated. Finally, moderatism, developed along ‘internal rationalist’ lines, is brought to bear on the issue of Humean scepticism, and it is claimed that it represents a better solution to it than Wright’s appeal to the notion of entitlement.
