Conservatism - key thinkers by https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs Key strands within the conservative tradition en-us 2019-01-14 08:03:39 UTC 2026-03-01 23:12:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Thomas Hobbes https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320261733 Had a skeptical view of human nature, arguing that it was needy and vulnerable and and therefore likely to commit destructive acts. He also asserted that before the state there was no cooperation or voluntary arrangements between individuals and therefore none of the Hobbesian ‘natural rights’.  

]]> 2019-01-14 13:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320261733 Disraeli 12krati https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262031 ''the palace is not safe if the cottage is not happy'']]> 2019-01-14 13:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262031 Michael Oakeshott https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262038 Believe most men and women were ‘imperfect but not immoral’ and that humanity was able to secure ‘both pleasure and improvement through the humdrum business of everyday life’ ]]> 2019-01-14 13:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262038 Edmund Burke https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262127 Claimed society and gov.t was more akin to a plant than a machine.  He insisted that change must be cautious and organic 
Believed that within all ‘organic’ societies, a ruling class was inevitable and desirable and that this class had a clear obligation to govern in the interest for all which was the french aristocracy failure to do this which led to revolution. 

 
]]> 2019-01-14 13:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262127 Ayn Rand https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262201 Highlighted the difference between traditional and New Right Conservatism ]]> 2019-01-14 13:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262201 Irving Babbitt https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262253 ...was heavily influenced by Edmund Burke. In the 1890s he and Paul Elmer More formulated what became The New Humanism, opposing the emotional, intuitive tenets of Naturalism and Romanticism. They instead called for classical ethics, morality, systematic reason, and universal conservative values. ]]> 2019-01-14 13:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262253 Robert Nozick https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262254  Argued that the growth of gov.t was the gravest contemporary threat to individual freedom and that the growth of welfare states in western Europe fostered a dependency culture ]]> 2019-01-14 13:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262254 Disraeli 12krati https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262519 one nation conservative who believed we should l help the poor. He claimed that if everyone accepted this, we would live in harmony]]> 2019-01-14 13:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262519 Alexander Hamilton https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262531 2019-01-14 13:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262531 Milton Friedman https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262697 2019-01-14 13:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262697 Irving Kristol https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262884 Known as the publicity-shy “godfather of neoconservatism”]]> 2019-01-14 13:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320262884 Adam Smith https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263052 the father of liberal economics]]> 2019-01-14 13:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263052 Boris Johnson https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263331 Lit hair tbh]]> 2019-01-14 13:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263331 Adam Smith 12krati https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263402 ''invisible hand'']]> 2019-01-14 13:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263402 Margaret Thatcher https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263487 2019-01-14 13:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263487 Hobbes 12krati https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263591 state of nature]]> 2019-01-14 13:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320263591 Bismarck 12krati https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320264245 One nation conservative]]> 2019-01-14 13:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320264245 Disraeli 12krati https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320264781 He quoted that we should elevate the condition of the people]]> 2019-01-14 13:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320264781 Bismarck 12krati https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320265850 Led to the first welfare state in Germany and the imposition of tariffs and import controls.]]> 2019-01-14 13:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/g_mitchell2/yvhdn76ndhhs/wish/320265850