Conservatism- key definions & values

Noblesse oblige

High society status have a responsibility to help the less fortunate

Paternalism- soft and hard

Soft paternalism - paternal attitude to those who are insufficiently voluntary

Hard paternalism- hard paternal attitude to sufficiently voluntary

Anti permissiveness

situation where behaviour is disagreed on with some people, refers to a lack of change in law/society to allow such behaviour

Radicalism 

belief or expression that there should be significant or extreme political or social change through radicalisation

Human imperfection

we are imperfect and unchangeable any ideology that works against this nature to make a utopia will end in dystopia

Tradition

keep things the way they are,

Stick to what you know 

Societies development is dependent on what came before

Oppose multiculturalism as dilutes tradition

Imperfection

people are naturally selfish and greedy

Organic society

need for small communities

Authority

some people are born leaders

Property

the right to own things and do with them what you wish

Inheritance and stability 

Symbolic of maintenance 

Having a stake in society  

Hierarchy

Society will always be a hierarchy and a ruling class is required

Hierarchal society’s have been more stable historically

Localism

see scoiety as a collection of small communities

Burkes ‘little platoons’

Forced universal society will coause harm

Organicism

Liberals believe in human reason, conservatives disagree society shouldn’t be engineered but changed slowly over time  

Empiricism

Deal with society as it is rather than what might be

Pragmatism

Judeo - Christian Morality

Inspiration from Christianity and religious education

Religiously rooted moral systems