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Hobbes on Human Rights
“covenants, without the sword, are but words”
Hobbes on Human Nature
The “state of nature” is “brutish and short” and defined by the “perpetual and restlesss desire for power”
Burke on How to Change
“change to conserve” through “pruning” existing institutions and not “philosophical abstractions”
Burke on Why We Should Change
“a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”
Burke on Tradition
Tradition is the “tested” wisdom of the past and is “wisdom without reflection”
Burke on Reason
Of Human nature, “reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part”
Oakeshott on Pragmatism v Rationalism
Pragmatism was “politics of scepticism” whereas Rationalism was “politics of faith”
Oakeshott on Tradition
“What has stood the rest of time is good and must not be lightly casted aside”
Robert Peel
Tamworth Manifesto - Torys’s should be focused on pragmatism
Great Reform Act 1832 Gave middle class men the right to vote
PM Disraeli
Artisans Dwelling Act 1875 cleared out slums
“the palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy”
PM Macmillan
Unemployment was viewed as the biggest issue for the stability of society
Established life peers through the Life Peerages Act 1958
Ayn Rand
“objectivism” and the “virtue of selfishness”
welfare should be only given willingly: “voluntarism”
David Cameron
Welfare Reform Act 2012 - weened benefits claimants off through incentives to work.
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