Maintaining the Order
Conservatism becomes an ideology
- Conservatives developed a new ideology in support of traditional political and religious authorities, which was based on the idea that human nature was not perfectible.
- New is deliberate: defending tradition with an argument is not the same as simply having tradition.
- And the foundation is a claim about human nature — the same kind of claim the Enlightenment made, reaching the opposite conclusion.
The new conservative ideology was based on the idea that human nature was...
The same kind of claim the Enlightenment made, opposite conclusion.
The Concert of Europe
- The Concert of Europe (or Congress System) sought to maintain the status quo through collective action and adherence to conservatism.
- Two methods in one sentence: collective action between states, and adherence to a doctrine within them.
- So 5.7's settlement acquires an ongoing institution — the containment is not a single act but a practice.
Select both methods the Concert of Europe used.
Between states, and within them.
Why the pairing makes sense
- If human nature is not perfectible, then a scheme to perfect society is not merely mistaken but dangerous.
- That argument justifies both the domestic doctrine and the international policing — one premise, two policies.
- Reading the ideology and the institution together is what makes 6.5 a single subtopic rather than two facts.
The argument, the institution, or the method?
Sort each element of how the order was maintained.
The CED calls the conservative ideology new.
Defending tradition with an argument is not the same as simply having tradition.
The conservative ideology is new, and it is an argument, not an inheritance. It supports traditional political and religious authorities on the basis that human nature was not perfectible — a claim about human nature, the same kind the Enlightenment made, reaching the opposite conclusion.
The objective asks how the order was maintained and ____.
6.6 and 6.7 supply the challenges.
Maintained and challenged
- The objective is how the European political order was maintained and challenged from 1815 to 1914 — both verbs.
- This subtopic supplies the maintenance; 6.6 and 6.7 supply the challenges.
- So an answer to the full objective needs material from more than this one lesson, and knowing that is part of using the CED well.
One premise justifies both the domestic doctrine and the international policing because...
One premise, two policies — which makes 6.5 a single subtopic.
Writing about an order that holds
- An order is maintained when it has an argument, an institution, and a method of enforcement.
- Here: the perfectibility claim, the Congress System, and collective action between the powers.
- Name all three and the maintenance side of the objective is answered.
A doctrine that says people cannot be perfected does not merely dislike a plan to perfect them; it predicts the plan will end badly, and treats every attempt as evidence. That is why the same premise justifies both a domestic policy and an international one.
Conservatives developed a new ideology in support of traditional political and religious authorities, based on the idea that human nature was not perfectible, and the Concert of Europe (or Congress System) sought to maintain the status quo through collective action and adherence to conservatism. One premise, two policies — and the objective's other verb, challenged, is answered by 6.6 and 6.7.