Conservative Thinking in the Context of the Military Professional Mentality of the Brazilian Army

Abstract

In this article, we present an analysis of Edmund Burke's conservative thinking in the context of the military professional mentality, specifically the Brazilian Army. The military profession has various characteristics of conservative thinking as functional imperative. However, we know that conservatism is shaped according to the historical and cultural conjuncture of each society. Thus, we consider that the Iberian culture of our colonization has contributed to the formation of a type of conservative mentality in our society and in its institutions, with characteristics that are unique to the Iberian Culture, which was the origin of this thought. This kind of mentality was absorbed by the members of the Army and reinforced by the functional conservative characteristics inherent to the military profession, contributing to the development of greater institutional cohesion and of values and traditions which are firmly identified with the national reality.