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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 a question of policy, but a question of doctrine, a question of the fundamental suppositions at work in determining the particular political choice.
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© 2001 Roger Scruton
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Scruton, R. (2001). The Autonomous Institution. In: The Meaning of Conservatism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377929_8
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