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The Fundamental Idea of Conservatism Is Time
The fundamental in political theory is what's called rationalism. liberalism and various enlightenment theories, they don't include time at all. That kind of political theorizing really does say at a given instant, we can know pretty much everything that we need to know,. And conservatism is the opposite. It's a traditionalist view, exactly as you say, that says that history is crucial.