Conservatism - Part 2
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- Created on: 03-04-24 13:50
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- Conservatism
- Maintaining Society
- Burke believed in 'Change to conserve '
- Society should adapt to shifting circumstances with small modifications
- Agreed on by One-Nation. and Neo-Liberals
- Burke believed in 'Change to conserve '
- Unequal Society
- Hobbes, Oakeshott and Burke
- Inequality is natural and organic society has a hierarchy
- Individuals have unequal talents
- Inequality is natural and organic society has a hierarchy
- Hobbes - Believed in Monarchy
- Burke believed aristorcracy should be in charge
- Hobbes, Oakeshott and Burke
- Pragmatism
- Conservatives believe in Empiricism and reject abstract ideas
- Pragmatic and not reactionary
- This influenced Disraeli and Robert Peel
- One Nation conservatives pragmatically accepted Atless changes and continued
- Conservatives believe in Empiricism and reject abstract ideas
- Tradition
- Burke believed that religion was the most important tradition
- 'Our Comfort'
- Burke believed in old establishments as they had accumulated wisdom
- Oakeshott argued 'What has stood the test of time is good and must not lightly be cast aside'
- Burke believed that religion was the most important tradition
- Paternalism
- Conservatives believed that since society was unequal their is parental responsibility
- Noblisses Oblige
- Disraeli - Ruling elite accepted their obligations to new industrial workers through social reforms
- Macmillan - Mixed economy state ownership
- Neo-Conservatives- Agrees with it but not to the same extent as One-Nation conservatives
- Conservatives believed that since society was unequal their is parental responsibility
- Libertarianism
- Agree with traditional conservatives on the view of laisses-Faire economics
- Minimal role of the state in economy
- Ayn Rand
- Atomistic society - Made up of Self-interested and -Self sufficient
- Human Imperfection
- Rejects pessimistic human imperfection - People are able to order their lives on moral and logic
- Rand and Nozick reject impercicism
- Believe in egotistical individualsim
- Society shouldn't have hierarchy and should be a meritocracy
- Agree with traditional conservatives on the view of laisses-Faire economics
- Maintaining Society
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