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conservatism Flashcards

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what are the 5 core themes?

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  • pragmatism
  • tradition
  • organic society
  • human imperfection
  • paternalism
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who are the 5 key thinkers?

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  • Oakeshott
  • Rand
  • Nozick
  • Hobbes
  • Burke
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what did hobbes say about a life without a strong government?

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‘it is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.’

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what did gilmour say about conservatives?

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‘the wise conservative travels light.’

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in what ways are humans limited?

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morally, psychologically and intellectually.

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how did oakeshott describe the political world?

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‘boundless and bottomless’

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what did hayek think about understanding the economy?

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humans cannot grasp the complexity of the economy.

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what did durkheim do?

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A study on suicide

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what is anomie

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a state of hoplessness, despair etc when there is no tradition, as people have no goals or direction which will lead them to kill themselves.

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Thinkers associated with tradition

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Durkheim:
Anomie due to lack of tradition. Tradition provides goals and direction and happines.
GK Chesterton:
democracy of the dead
Burke:
democracy is a partnership between the living, the dead and those to be born.

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what did william sumner say about hierarchy?

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‘the drunkard in the gutter is where he ought to be’

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define functionalism

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the only things to survive through history are institutions that work. They should not be reformed or abolished as they are functional.

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why was thatcher different in her views of soceity?

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she denied its existence. Belief in an atomistic society over an organic one.

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what is the phrase to describe the duty of those higher in the hierarchy to help those below them?

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noblesse oblige

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why have neoliberals abandoned the idea of paternalism?

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they have a focus on individualism and concerns about dependency culture.

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what are the official strands of conservatism?

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  1. traditional
  2. one nation
  3. the new right ( neoliberals and neoconservatives)
17
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match key thinkers to core themes for traditional conservatives

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hobbes - authority
burke - tradition and organic society
oakeshott - human imperfection and pragmatism

18
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what core theme matches with disreali

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paternalism

19
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what was burke’s response to the french revolution?

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he wrote ‘reflections on the revolution in france’, which was ‘the most eloquent statement of British conservatism, favouring monarchy, aristocracy, property, hereditary succession and wisdom of the ages.

20
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traditional conservatives can either be…

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authoritarian or pragmatic.

21
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what were authoritarian traditional conservative beliefs?

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  • the belief that consent was not needed for a government to exercise authority.
    hobbes mainly agreed, but was into some more freedom.
22
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what are pragmatic traditional conservative beliefs?

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  • ‘change to conserve’
  • a distrust in rationalism because of belief in intellectual imperfections.
23
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who were authoritarian conservatives?

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  • De Maistre
  • Tsar Nicholas I
  • Otto von Bismark
  • Pope Pius IX
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what did burke say about tradition?

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democracy is a partnership between the living, dead and those to be born

25
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what did burke say about society?

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the working tallow chandler should know their place. we should love our ‘little platoons’

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what did burke say about pragmatism?

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‘a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.’

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what did oakeshott say about human imperfection?

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‘in political activity, man sails a boundless and bottomless sea’

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what did oakeshott say about the state?

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it should ‘keep the ship afloat’. only keep things stable and orderly.

29
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who were one nation conservatives?

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disraeli
randolph churchil
harold macmillan

30
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what does ‘anti-permissiveness’ mean?

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rejecting the idea that people should have the freedom to make their own moral choices.

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