Conservative Key Thinkers

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Edmund Burke

  • human imperfection
  • gap between aspirations and achievement
  • state like a living organism
  • balanced organic society, wary of change
  • hierarchy is important
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Thomas Hobbes

  • skeptical view of human nature
  • humans are vulnerable and easily led astray
  • state should be the absolute sovereign
  • isolated power in one person
  • monarchy/aristocrcay
  • ordered society and balanced free living
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Micheal Oakeshott

  • human imperfection
  • should be guided by pragmatism not idealism
  • state should be guided by tradition
  • modern society is too impractical and complex
  • free markets are volatile so state must intervene
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Ayn Rand

  • human imperfection
  • highest aim is your own happiness
  • rational self-interest
  • low state intervention
  • administer courts of law
  • society is broken down into individuals
  • atomism
  • laissez-faire capitalism
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Robert Nozick

  • some optomism towards human nature
  • humans arent a resource
  • egotistical people
  • minimal state
  • no welfare state
  • rely on private funds
  • individualism
  • taxation is immoral
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