The conservative recognizes God’s law as the foundation for all good things, but also understands humanity’s imperfect nature would corrupt any attempt to build heaven on earth as a government project.
Perfect Bedrock – Part 2 (Where Does Order Come From?)
Can the parameters of good order be deduced through reason alone? If not, to what source of authority can society turn to?
Perfect Bedrock – Part 1 (The Foundation of All Good Things)
Everything conservatism defends as worth conserving rests on the idea that there exists some standard by which we can truthfully distinguish what things have value from mere popular preferences.