Thinkers conservative Flashcards

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Thomas Hobbes

Key ideas

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1) an ordered society should balance the human need to lead a free life
2) humans are needy vulnerable and easily lead astray in attempts to understand the world

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Thomas Hobbes

Total obedience for …

Or the consequence would be ..

People becoming ..

Rational people enter into a ..

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  • an absolute government
  • the ‘state of nature’
  • ‘ solitary poor nasty brutish and short’
  • social contract
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Edmund Burke

Key ideas
what type of conservative?

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1) change with great caution mindful of the delicate balance in an organic society
2) tradition and empiricism
traditional

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Edmund Burke

A government should not be based on … should be based on ..

He endorsed .. ‘tested wisdom’ why?

Thoughts on human nature ?

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-abstract principles end in chaos and tyranny … empiricism and tradition

  • organic gradual change based on experience
  • promotes social cohesion/stability

People evil

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Michael oakeshott

Key ideas ?
uses?

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1) people’s actions should be guided by pragmatism rather than ideology
2) theories and ideologies oversimplify complex situations

human imperfection/pragmatism (society/state)

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Michael oakeshott

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What is modern society?

People don’t have ..
What’s an example of misguided human rationalism ?

What maintains social stability and cohesion?
What is pragmatism ?

A

Both unpredictable and complex

The mental faculties to make sense of a complex modern world

Communist regimes

Modernisation, cautious change when necessary with historical continuity

Respond to circumstances as you see

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Ayn Rand

Key ideas ?

uses?

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1) people should pursue their own happiness as their highest moral aim
2) people should work hard to achieve a life of purpose and productiveness
objectiveness/freedom

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Ayn Rand

What did rand champion ? Claiming that?

What two things did she reject ? As they created ?

What did she call for ? So complete..?
Selfishness is a …?

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Objectivism, rational pursuit of self interest was morally right

  • government welfare
  • state
    An artificial sense of obligation and expectation (not self interest)

Uncontrolled/unregulated lassiez faire
Deregulation
Virtue

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Robert Nozick

Key ideas
uses?

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1)individuals in society cannot be treated as a thing or used against their will as a resource
2) individuals own their bodies talents abilities and labour
state

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Robert Nozick

What was Nozick ?

What did he conclude about state welfare redistribution programmes ?

Meaning the only type of state he wanted was?

Therefore he opposes ? (2)

Complete ..?

A

A libertarian

  • immoral because it’s a type of forced labour
  • treat individuals as a resource to further goals of equality and social justice

Minimal or ‘night watchman’ (Locke)

  • taxation
  • state welfare

Deregulation

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Thomas Hobbes, human nature
needy vulnerable characteristics?(3)

human capacity to reason is ….
distorted by …

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fighting for basics
fighting out of fear
seeking reputation

fragile / self-interest

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pragmatism? two stands of conserve

tradition?

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rejects ideology, decisions made from practical experience implies flexible political approach (traditional/one nation)

institutions/customs developed over time passed onto generations

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13
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3 aspects of human imperfection?

5 features of organic society?

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phycological/moral/intellectual

-living organism
-authority
-paternalism
hierarchy
traditional institutions

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paternalism ?

libertarianism advocates?(3)
commonly known as? rejects?

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ppl best equipped to govern through birth/inheritance/upbringing

  • individual liberty
  • maximum economic freedom
  • minimal gov/state regulation

liberal new right/neo-liberalism
paternalism

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traditional conservative features?(5)

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-traditional institutions
-pragmatism
gradual reform
-hierarchy
living organism

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one nation 3 features?

what type of economics ?

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-traditional institutions
-support for imperialism
social reforms for working class

Keynesian ‘middle way’

17
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new right, combination of?
rival to?
sometimes called?

3 incoherent features ?

A

neo liberalism/neo conservatism
one nation
Thatcherism

  • traditional
  • radical ‘anti-permissiveness’
  • reactionary
18
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neo-liberalism 4 features?

neo-conservative 3 features?

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  • free market
  • inflation
  • rejection of gov spending
  • atomistic individual
  • social order
  • traditional values
  • public morality