The Wisdom of Our Ancestors – Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition

The Wisdom of Our AncestorsConservative Humanism and the Western Tradition\nAuthor(s): Graham James McAleer, Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul, Daniel J. Mahoney\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268207427, 978-0268207427\nSynopsis\nIn The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, the authors mount a powerful defense of Western civilization, sketching a fresh vision of conservatism in the present age.\n\n In this book, Graham McAleer and Alexander Rosenthal-Pubul offer a renewed vision of conservatism for the twenty-first century. Taking their inspiration from the late Roger Scruton, the authors begin with a simple question: What, after all, is the meaning of conservatism? In reply, they make a case for a political orientation that they call \""conservative humanism,\"" which threads a middle way between liberal universalism and its ideological alternatives. This vision of conservatism is rooted in the humanist .