Whats the difference between following tradition and refusing to think?
While conservatives do not reject thought, they are skeptical of its autonomy. They believe that tradition guides and corrects thought, and so brings it closer to truth, which has no special connection with any private view. Truth is not altogether out of reach, but our access to it is incomplete and often indirect. Since it can not be reduced wholly to our possession, conservatives are willing to accept it in whatever form it is available to us. In particular, they recognize the need to rely on the unarticulated truth implicit in inherited attitudes and practices. Today this aspect of our connection to truth is underestimated, and conservatives hope to think better and know more truly by re-emphasizing it.
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