traditional conservatism

Question 1

What are the 4 forms of conservatism?

Answer 1

traditional C. , one-nation C. and the new right, and neo liberal

Question 2

outline Thomas Hobbes idea of Human imperfection

Answer 2

Hobbes argued in his famous work ‘leviathan” that humans are morally, intellectually and phsycologically imperfect and ruthlessly self-interested and so incapable of reaching a state of perfection.

Question 3

What is the ‘state of nature’ ?

Answer 3

the state of nature is our species that natural state in a described society where individuals live without laws,and so existence would be a hellish chaotic world o constat warfare.

Question 4

what is best to describe life in a society in “the state of nature”?

Answer 4

‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’.

Question 5

Hobbes did not think of humans as wholly irrational, instead what did he believe?

Answer 5

Individuals would seek realise hey need protection from themselves and so they would be rational enough to seek order which can only be achieved by social contract .

Question 6

what would a social contract between an authority and individuals do?

Answer 6

Hobbes believed that it would makes individuals give up freedoms (meaningless in a chaotic state of nature) to an all powerful sovereign, in return sov. grants legal and physical protection to his subjects.

Question 7

what does hobbes make clear about society and the state?

Answer 7

He makes it clear that society cannot exist before the creation of the state.

Question 8

what do both Oakeshott , burke and hobbes believe about the unequal society?

Answer 8

believe that inequality is natural/inevitable because some components (people and their jobs) of the organic society we live in are more important than others- giving a natural order to life