Conservatism - core ideas by Katie Shapiro https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k en-us 2020-06-01 12:55:45 UTC 2020-06-19 14:18:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Burke kshapiro1 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633586887 Conservatives believe society is a collection of localised communities.
Burke - 'little platoons' 
MC]]> 2020-06-19 14:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633586887 Thomas Hobbes https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633588447 Thought that human nature was ruthless and violent without authority but thought that some kind of contract would be reached between humans - similar social contract idea to Locke. EM]]> 2020-06-19 14:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633588447 not progressive and pessimistic by stressing human fraility- CF https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633588683 2020-06-19 14:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633588683 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633589246 Human imperfection ]]> 2020-06-19 14:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633589246 human nature = selfish LC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633589395 2020-06-19 14:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633589395 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633589957 Thomas Hobbes believed human nature is selfish, ruthless, calculating and competitive -NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633589957 stability LC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633590422 2020-06-19 14:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633590422 society is a collection of communities not individuals as liberals claim- CF https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633590528 2020-06-19 14:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633590528 'a philosophy of imperfection' EW https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633590961 2020-06-19 14:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633590961 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591102 Edmond Burke did not think human beings are selfish or terrible. This shows some contrast to Hobbes -NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591102 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591164 View tends to be descriptive not prescriptive, highlighting humanity as it is rather than as it should or could be - empiricism LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591164 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591678 Conservative economics favour capitalism and laissez-faire, given that Burke was close friends with the founder, Adam Smith.  EM]]> 2020-06-19 14:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591678 human nature is fixed and constant EW https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591790 2020-06-19 14:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591790 something that emerges gradually and cannot be created CF https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591795 2020-06-19 14:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591795 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591939 Conservatives see state as having a disciplinary function NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633591939 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592003 Society emerges gradually organically and they see the 'reality' of an unplanned organic society, proof that human life is subject to complex forces beyond the scope of reason. MC]]> 2020-06-19 14:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592003 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592050 Thomas Hobbes regarded human nature as ruthlessly selfish calculating and competitive.-LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592050 Oakeshott CF https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592800 observed that society merely aims to 'stay float' in uncertain waters, rather than sail steadily towards specific destination. MC]]> 2020-06-19 14:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592800 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592808 Conservatives believe the state precedes society. There needs to be law and order which the state has to provide NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633592808 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593119 However the conservative relationship with capitalism is tenuous because capitalism is inherently risky, when conservative have core values of stability. EM]]> 2020-06-19 14:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593119 'little platoons' provide individuals with security, status and inspiration EW https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593135 2020-06-19 14:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593135 hierarchy in the state LC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593236 2020-06-19 14:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593236 Thatcherism- privatised previously state owned industries CF https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593718 2020-06-19 14:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633593718 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633594339 They believe the state needs to emerge gradually. Therefore they believe in uncodified constitutions such as the one in the UK because it evolved gradually based on events NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633594339 conservatism sees the state as having more of a disciplinary function EW https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633594528 2020-06-19 14:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633594528 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633594772 The main goal of the conservative state is to provide order, security and authority EW ]]> 2020-06-19 14:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633594772 Keynesian capitalism - where the state would manage the market to ensure full employment CF https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595151 2020-06-19 14:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595151 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595206 Locialism- collection of Locialised communities, little platoons, these communities provide their individuals with security, status and inspiration, while acting as a brake upon the sort of selfish individualism. -LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595206 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595795 Society is linked to stability, security and orderly change NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595795 Link to Brexit https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595922 British Conservatives greater attachment to nation-state therefore less enthusiasm for European political union as they tend to see diminution of the nation-state as a diminution of the nation itself. MC]]> 2020-06-19 14:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633595922 traditional conservatives are reluctant supporters of capitalism because it promotes risk whereas traditional conservatives fear radical change https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633596666 CF]]> 2020-06-19 14:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633596666 traditional conservatives https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633596749 traditional conservatives are sceptical of the classical or neo-liberal belief that markets are at their most effective when left alone by governments EW]]> 2020-06-19 14:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633596749 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597203 A ruling class, they are comfortable with a state that is overtly hierarchical reflecting the elitist society they also endorse.-LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597203 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597280 Conservative supporters are sometimes called capitalism’s “reluctant supporters” because capitalism believes in free market, whereas conservatives worship order and stability, not risk NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597280 Ayn Rand https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597646 'when the state becomes flabby, is also becomes feeble'. Links to New Right Conservatives which aim to streamline the nation-state's functions making it 'leaner and fitter'. MC]]> 2020-06-19 14:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597646 laissez-faire capitalism requires optimistic thinking which goes against the conservatism view of being pessimistic LC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597931 2020-06-19 14:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633597931 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633598048 New Right conservatives influenced by Milton Friedman and Friedrich Von Hayek NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633598048 New Right https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633598072 The New Right governments of Margaret Thatcher aimed to ‘free’ the UK economy through the privatisation of formerly state-owned industries  EW]]> 2020-06-19 14:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633598072 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633598597 Sharpen the distinction between classes, whilst defending inequality and hierarchy.-LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633598597 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633599311 Adam Smith Laissez-fairs economic structure, free market -LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633599311 Hobbes https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633599414 without restraints of formal authority, life would be ‘nasty, brutish and short’ EW]]> 2020-06-19 14:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633599414 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633599773 Britain and US have different view to Germany and Italy, who believe nation preceded state. Britain and US believe nation and state are intertwined and state serves much of the nation NM]]> 2020-06-19 14:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633599773 the state should show empirical and practical characteristics as it will provide order and cohesion LC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633600131 2020-06-19 14:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633600131 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633601061 Capitalism, conservatives worship order, stability and continuity.-LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633601061 https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633602425 The nation state, natural basis of society-LW]]> 2020-06-19 14:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kshapiro1/qoqql857hqxjvd8k/wish/633602425