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Conservative and Liberal Key Thinkers - Coggle Diagram
Conservative and Liberal Key Thinkers
Conservative
Thomas Hobbes
Edmund Burke
Ayn Rand
Key ideas:
rational self interested being 'virtue of selfishness'.
freedom support for a completely free liasses faire economy.
Michael Oakshott
Key ideas:
human imperfection.
pragmatism.
Robert Nisick
Liberalism
John Locke
The 2 treaties of government:
the social contract theory
limited government
John Stuart Mill
Key ideas:
the harm principle.
Tolerance.
Mary Wolstoncraft
Human nature:
positive, both men and women are rational.
The state:
state assumed women were not rational (18th cen).
few women owned property or had rewarding jobs, and within marriage they were not legally interdependent
Society:
to be equal and free women should have full civil liberties & be able to peruse a career.
formal education releases potential.
marriage had to be a truly equal partnership.
John Rawls
Key ideas:
theory of justice.
the veil of ignorance.
Betty Freiden
Key ideas:
legal equality.
equal opportunity.