key thinkers

Question 1

john locke book and year

Answer 1

‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’
‘two treatises of government’
1632-1704 - late 17th cent

Question 2

mary wollstonecraft book and year

Answer 2

‘a vindication of the rights of woman’
1759-97 - 100 years after Locke

Question 3

adam smith book and year

Answer 3

‘the wealth of nations’
1723-90 - late 18th cent

Question 4

John stuart mill year

Answer 4

1806-73 - 19th cent

Question 5

TH Green year

Answer 5

19th cent - 1936-82

Question 6

John Rawls book and year

Answer 6

most influential liberal of 20th cent
‘theory of justice’ 1971

Question 7

friedrich von hayek/jmk book of hayek

Answer 7

1899-1992 - 20th cent
first book - the road to serfdom
said that by allowing the government to have control of the economy they gain enormous control
second book - the constitution of liberty
restated the principles of classical liberaism

Question 8

betty friedan book and year

Answer 8

‘the feminine mystique’
1921-2006

Question 9

smith ideas

Answer 9

father of economics - laissez faire, no government intervention, invisible hand - natural self interest and individualism will mean the most benefit to the collective

Question 10

john locke ideas

Answer 10

negative liberty - freedom = absence of restraint only
natural rights = life, liberty, property
against divine rights of kings and empiricism
government role - minimal - only to provide natural rights to citizens and serve them - government by consent

Question 11

mary wollstonecraft ideas

Answer 11

feminist liberal - wanted equality
view aligned with positive liberty - wanted women to have more rights, not just to not be unrestrained