Political Science · Political Theory
Who proclaimed the value of 'throne and altar'?
AIrving Kristol
BMichael Oakeshott
CJoseph de Maistre ✓ Correct
DEdmund Burke
Correct answer: (C) Joseph de Maistre — The defence of throne and altar belongs to Joseph de Maistre, so the answer is Maistre.
Explanation
★The defence of throne and altar belongs to Joseph de Maistre, so the answer is Maistre.
★Throne and altar means the union of monarchy and the Church as the twin pillars of order.
★Maistre, a Savoyard counter-revolutionary, saw legitimate authority as sacred and divinely sanctioned.
★He blamed the French Revolution's chaos on the Enlightenment attack on monarchy and religion.
★Irving Kristol and Oakeshott belong to twentieth century neoconservative and modern conservatism.
★Edmund Burke valued the Church and Crown but framed reform more cautiously than Maistre's absolutism.
★Maistre thus stands at the authoritarian, reactionary pole of conservative thought.
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