CONS society

• Traditional + One Nation + Neo-conservatives

  • Organic society based on hierarchy, national authority and paternalism to some extent
  • Humans are imperfect and have a psychological need to be part of a organic society
  • Society can gradually change
• Traditional + One Nation + Neo-conservatives

  • Burke and Oakeshott -> that society can mitigate human imperfection
  • Hobbes -> society did not exist before the state, life was “nasty, brutish, and short”
  • Burke -> society needs to change to conserve, society an organism with multiple symbiotic relationships
  • Oakeshott -> argues that conservatives prefer the status quo of traditions but society still an organism
• One Nation

  • Emphasises noblesse oblige
  • Believe in a “social contract” as said in a One Nation caucus of Conservatives in May 2019.
• Neo-liberals

  • Reject an organic society, instead prioritising individuals - blunts trhe development of the individual
  • Opposes the welfare state
  • Reason over tradition or empiricism
• Neo-liberals

  • Rand -> organic society restricts individual thinking as they are absorbed into the dominant beliefs of society
  • Rand and Nozick -> favour atomistic individualism
  • Nozick -> state should be limited to protect human rights, only interfere in cases of force, theft, or breach of contracts