Definitions

• Altruism


  Selfless concern for the well-being of others
• Noblesse oblige


  Those born with higher status have a duty to help those less fortunate
• Paternalism


  Members that are governing the country acting in the best interest of the people
• Anti-permissiveness


  Behaviour that people may disapprove of is not allowed
• Radicalism


  The belief that there should be extreme and significant political or social change
• Human imperfection


  Human nature is imperfect and unchangable
• Hierarchy


  The way members of society are stratified relative to others
• Organic society


  Society functions like a living organism, with everything relying on eachother having a specific role
• Authority


  The power and right to give orders, make decisions and enforce obedience
• Change to conserve


  Society should adapt to changing circumstances rather than reject change outright and risk rebellion
• Atomism


  A theoretical approach that regards something as interpretable through analysis into distinct, sperable and independent elementary components
• Laissez-faire

  The policy of leaving things to take their own course, without interfering (from the state)
• Positive rights

  Rights that provide something that people need to secure their wellbeing (eg: right to food)
• Keynesian economics


  Because prices are somewhat rigid, fluctuations in any component of spending - consumption, investment, or government expenditures - cause output to change
• Anarchy


  A state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absense of governmental authority
• Individual sovereignity

  We hold property over our person and possession of bodily integrity
• Side constraints

  There is no situation where it would be morally permissible to harm an individual in order to spare others harm
• Minarchist state

  A view that a governments only function is to protect the rights of its citizens
• Egalitarian

  Beleving in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities