Sacrifice exchanges
This primitive imagery suggests that by giving up something treasured, something better might arise. The phoenix-like imagery of sacrifice exchange is shown through an allusion to Hobbes's Leviathan and to the sacrifice that humans participate in by agreeing to be law-abiding citizens. The benefit of that sacrifice is that it becomes less likely that any of us will be randomly murdered. The sacrifice exchange is shown as a major feature of the Right, because they trade freedom for safety in more ways that the one described.
The constructed status quo
Hegel imagines the conservative element as a kind of preservation technique. If a team had to solve a complex math equation, then every good idea might be worthy of preservation. However, that preservation is a sacrifice exchange; by prioritizing old and proven ideas over other more open-minded, new ideas, there is created a "status quo," which can lead to consistency and safety through time. For instance, if the government reorganized itself every year so that the branches of government were all done away with and changed, then the government would be too chaotic to serve the people.
Moralism
Hegel says that the status quo has a moralistic component which conservatives experience with their sense of goodness. In other words, it feels obviously holy and morally good to do what "one is supposed to," and it seems dangerous and blasphemous to ask, "Why should I do that as opposed to anything else?" This use of imagery shows that Hegel understands the moralism of conservative political views. This feeling of moral duty and obligation helps reserve the status quo in the future.
Improvement and evolution
Through the famous imagery of dialectic recombination, Hegel explains that human opinion evolves through time, oscillating between conservation and progress in a way that varies depending on the people and on the circumstances of history. He describes a higher kind of goodness in relation to this process. By understanding that change is inevitable, therefore a "good" person should consider which changes are helpful and which are not, using a specific goal and a sense of personal responsibility. He calls this ethics.
