Edmund Burke

• Organic Society

  Society like a plant, should only need careful pruning. Reform should be limited and cautious.
• Abstract Society

  Society shouldn't be built of abstract ideas such as liberty and equality - Pragmatism.
• Tradition and Empiricism

  Empiricism represents the accumulated and tested knowledge of the past, as does tradition.
• Little Platoons


  A multitude of small and autonomous communities, help correct the flaws of humanity.
• Human Nature


  Humans morally and intellectually fallible, can't impose blueprints so doomed to fail.
• State

  Hierarchal, paternalistic.

  'change to conserve' enough small change to prevent revolution.
• Society

  Organic, complex.

  Developed over long period of time, cannot be changed with revolution - if you cut off the roots you kill it.
• Economy

  Free market is the natural organic state, so should be protected.