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Conservatism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Oakeshott believed that Conservative Tradition is to prefer the familiar to the unknown and to trust customs and historical structures rather than to try and make radical change.
      - Oakeshott believed that humans are intellectually imperfect - political ideas are so broad and complex that we as humans are unable to grasp them.
      - Believed that Conservatism is Pragmatic
- - - - He believed that if humans were left the state of nature they would be violent towards one another and without respect of others property.
      - Hobbes wrote extensively in Leviathan about the limitations of human nature.
      - Pessimistic view of Human Nature
    - - He believed that humans were rational creatures - he believed in human imperfection.
      - Associated with the traditional conservative view to change is to conserve.
      - Burke urged British Tories to accept change in order to conserve society after seeing the French Revolution.
- - - - Nozick opposed taxes and as such saw redistribution policies as legalised theft.
      - He believed that if the state had control resources would be given to groups that would win elections such as the Elderly.
      - Believed that there should be Individual Sovreignty and saw humans as rational self interested human beings.
    - - Supports Ideas of human rationality
      - Rand supported a lassiez faire economic system and believed this was the only way for individuals to be truly free.
      - Rand supported the philosphical idea of objectivism.