Abstract

SANTILLAN, Gustavo. Conservatism and Morality. 1858-1861. The Ethical Dispute during the Reform War. Hist. graf [online]. 2024, n.62, pp.367-407.  Epub Jan 26, 2024. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi62.501.

The present article studies the conservative argumentation during the reform war (1858-1861) before a gradual but not linear process of secularization of morality. From the formulations both of the government in possession of the capital of the republic and of publications in newspapers, magazines and pamphlets from some regions of the country, it ponders that Catholic ethics was a point of convergence between conservative authorities and both ecclesiastical and secular voices. However, even within conservative thought there are signs of increasing civil intervention in the modulation of morality and the guidelines of collective conduct. Lastly, it reviews the reasons not only confessional but practical in defense of religious virtue, which around the year 1861 began an incipient and interrupted process of adaptation to the liberal triumph.

Keywords : morality; conservatism; reform war; secularization; constitutionalism.

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