Konzervatizmus és információs társadalom
Conservatism and the information society

Summary/Abstract: The author’s claim is that the information society has not raised wholly new problems, since questions typical of the information society discourse are practically as old as Western civilization itself. These classical questions are well-known to conservative thinking, therefore, it is by no means true that for conservatives the information society poses new theoretical challanges. The paper analyzes four sets of problems, generally of particular importance for conservatives: tradition, order, function, and knowledge (science). True conservative thinking is by no means hostile to, or suspicious of, the development and spread of information technologies. Since essential social changes do not seem to be under way, the author comes to the conclusion that the classical questions remain with us, and the classical answers to them are still valid.

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