Conservative Flashcards
What is conservatism?
What do they prefer?
It’s the aim to conserve society it is existing form and the wary of change
They prefer pragmatism to ideological thinking
What are the core values of conservatism?
Tradition
Organic society
Human imperfection
Monarchy
Libeialtearism
What did Thomas Hobbs say of the state of nature?
The state of nature is a war of every man against every man
What did Thomas Hobbs say about life and humans?
Life would become solitary, poor nasty Brutish and short because humans are needy and vulnerable
What does Thomas Hobbs believe about humans?
Humans are imperfect conservatives have a pessimistic view of human nature and argue people flawed
Human nature is immutable which means cannot be improved
Humans are flawed in three ways psychologically morally and intellectually
What did Edmund Burke believe about human?
Believes humans aren’t as bad as they can work together, which means it disagrees with Hobbs
Believes humans are psychologically imperfect
Why did Edmund Bakh talk about humans and what happened during his time?
French Revolution occurred aristocracy and church enjoyed great privilege poor not
There was a popular revolution
The ideas of the new government were based on liberty equality fraternity
The king was an executed but then 40,000 people died surrounded by hostile armies
And the revolution ended as Napoleon was crowned and return of absolute power
