CEVAP:

Conservatism extends the criterion of the self even further than liberalism and socialism do. While liberalism offers the self as a criterion of judgement, and while socialism offers an extension of this criterion so it includes the social as a criterion of judgement, conservatism supposes that both of these are too abstract. The conservative goes even further and claims that the criterion of a self constituted by both social and historical existence means that there is no historical task, only the necessity of not sundering ourselves from history, as liberals and even socialists seem to require us to do. We have a debt to those who are dead as well as to those who are alive.