KEY THINKERS Flashcards
1
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EDMUND BURKE
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- reflections on the revolution in france 1790
- whip mp
- defined conservative thought
- stressed fallibility of men and tendency to fail
- denounced fallibility of man
- state based on fact and experience
- plant theory
- little platoons
2
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THOMAS HOBBES
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- leviathan 1651
- conservative but linked to liberal
- very sceptical about HN
- state of nature theory
- man agreed to contract of state
- autocratic only way to be safe, dispersed power equals conflict
3
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MICHAEL OAKESHOTT
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- on being conservative 1962
- focuses on human imperfection NOT pessimism
- fallible not terrible, imperfect not immoral
- ideal society impossible
- argued soc and lib view of how society should be created frustration
- nautical metaphor
- state ‘prevent bad rather than create good’ (new right called this lazy)
4
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AYN RAND
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- atlas shrugged 1957
- talented people are heart of society
- objectivism and atomism
- laissez faire capitalism
- supports right to choose in abortion homo
- free markets needs parameters of small state
- liberty impossible without order and security
