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What are the three strands of Conservatism
Traditional, one nation and new right
What are the traditional Conservatism key beliefs
Human imperfection, order, tradition, change to conserve
Who are the traditional conservative key thinkers
Thomas Hobbes and Edmund Burke
What are the key ideas of one nation conservativatism
Pragnatism, paternalism and organic society
Who’s the key thinker of one nation Conservatism
Micheal Oakeshott
What are the sub strands of the new right
Neo-Conservatism and Neo-Liberalism
What are the key core beliefs of New right Conservativatism
Minimal state, Laissez-faire economics, libertarianism
Who are the key thinkers of New right Conservativatism
Ayn Rand (Neo Liberalism) and Robert Nozick (Neo Liberalism)
Why does Traditional Conservatism support Human Imperfection (morally)
People are selfish and greedy strong systems needed to restrain their impulses
Why does Traditional Conservatism support Human Imperfection (physiologically)
People want to feel safe and to know their role in society more than they want the freedom of complete choice and unpredictability
Why does Traditional Conservatism support Human Imperfection(state of nature)
Conservatives support stronger police enforcement and longer prison sentences, because they believe that human nature will only respond to a form deterrent
Why does traditional Conservatism support Human imperfection (intellectually)
– People believe their actions to be rational, but they are often influenced by irrational impulses, and fail to see how complicated the world really is
Why does traditional Conservatism support Tradition (Burke)
Prejudice in favour of tradition is inherited wisdom – We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages
Why does Traditional Conservatism support tradition (Society benefits from sticking to tradition)
Accumulated wisdom of generations of people.
Why does Traditional Conservatism support tradition(Links between generations are vital & respectful)
– Conservatives find freedom in choosing to respect tradition
Why does Traditional Conservatism support tradition (change to conserve)
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation
One nation conservatisms (combining paternalism with capitalism)
He argued the rich should give charity and added acts to oppose the gap such as the factory act.
One nation Conservatisms (opposition to laissez faire capitalism)
– As this would strengthen the divide and it is inhumane so new acts were put in place to limit this.
One nation Conservatism (greater equality of opportunity) Disraeli
Such as school and job opportunities so those from more disadvantaged backgrounds could have a greater chance at being successful.
One nation Conservatism (Objection to equality of outcome) Disraeli
Reduction of their hour of Labour to humanise their toil
One nation Conservatism (rich and poor nation)
the rich and the poor are not governed by the same law’s no intercourse between the two groups
New Right (Organic change) Hayek
Through trial and error using our own consciences communities can evolve their own sets of rules without the abstract nature of socialist philosophers
New right(sceptical of human’s capacity) Hayek
He argued that an individual human could not gain enough knowledge in one lifetime to run a system, establishing why conservatism is so quintessential as it is running a system based of previous knowledge.
Outline why Nozick thinks rights are Side Constraints
(What does rights are side constraints mean?)
? Rights should therefore not broadly limit an individuals attempts to achieve their freely chosen goals. They should not be forced on a path which is simply deemed good for society, once this goal has been free chosen, only may some constraints to ensure the broader freedoms of all individuals be allowed.
These Side Constraints are smaller limits on individual rights but ensure no individuals chosen path can Violate the Absolute Rights of Others.
Outline Nozick’s views on the invisible hand and minimal state
How does the dominant agency become the state? Nozick then predicted that these Agencies would begin to Professionalise as members sought to hire professional investigators and personnel to settle the disputes for them impartially. As this job was being outsourced to the professional agents a fee would be paid by individual members to have this service managed for them.
The two types of knowledge (oakeshott)
Technical and pratical
Who said feeble if it became flabby
Rand on the economy, She was concerned most by the question that government should only be allowed to do what it’s citizens allow it to do
Who argued that “The sacrifice of one person saves the town and leads to the minimum of rights violation for the society”
Nozick for New right Conservativism, he argued that focuses simply on the common good can lead to a massive violation of individual rights.
What’s Nozick’s on the individual hand and minimal state
He argues that the job of the state would be outsourced to agencies and that the dominant agency would become the state
Who says “What each person gets, he gets from others who give to him in exchange for something, or as a gift. In a free society, diverse persons control different resources and new holdings arise out of the voluntary exchanges and actions of persons
Nozick
Why is Oakeshott pessimistic of reform
he discussed the political world as a Bottomless which had neither a clear starting place nor oppinted destination. it was societies job to stay afloat.
who said Nasty, Brutish and short
Hobbes describing his views on the state of nature
