Assertion: conservatism | /r/CapableOf | steer middle course of pessimism
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text: For Kekes, conservatism adopts a stance of scepticism between extremes of rationalism and fideism (belief based on faith), and steers a middle course of pessimism between claims of perfectibility and corruptibility (1998: 54, 89, 60).