Abstract
Abstract Variously characterized as pragmatic, utilitarian, skeptical, or prudential, Edmund Burke's thought is not seen as providing a full and coherent prescription for how we should live our lives. I argue that Burke does provide such a prescription; one embodied in the notion of a conservative good life. In this good life, citizens serve society, in their historically prescribed positions and capacities, out of affectionate attachment to family, locality, and nation. Much like Aristotle, Burke emphasizes the habitual nature of virtue and the need for fitting actions within given circumstances. Unlike Aristotle and the modern republicanism so often associated with Aristotelian thought, Burke emphasizes the need to accept, out of love, the traditional institutions, beliefs, and practices of society so that the conservative good life and the defense of the familiar that is its basis may be possible.
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