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	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1165812670.shtml

It begins:

	In political philosophy, but also in daily
	political debate, much appears to rest on the
	relationship between love and hate, order and
	violence, community and egoism. What is immutable
	and what contingent? Much of what deeply divides
	‘left’ from ‘right’ in the modern world
	seems located in this area. It is recognisably
	‘right-wing’ to regard lust, acquisitiveness,
	ambition, jealousy, malice, mistrust and violence
	as typically and immutably human. Thus order can
	only be achieved through coercive law, systems of
	status, hierarchies of office and regulated markets
	in goods and services. In this aspect conservatism
	is typified, to use Anthony Quinton’s phrase,...