Society

Cards (5)

  • Hobbes:
    -Order only to be achieved by a social compact involving the individuals of society and the head of state
    -Society therefore to balance the need for order and the human need to live a free life
    -Society arises not organically but from a deliberate agreement among individuals for mutual benefit and security
     
  • Burke:
    -Tradition and empiricism should be passed down through generations, as a society is a partnership between 'those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born'
    -Sometimes society must change to conserve
    -Ruling class has a paternalistic responsibility or noblesse oblige to society's weaker elements
    -Preservation and improvement of society
  • Oakeshott:
    -Modern society is unpredictable and multi-faceted
    -Faith in rationalism misplaced as theories oversimply complex situations
    -Rationalism and its doctrines worthless: humans should put their faith in trusted traditions and empiricism
    -Change to conserve
    -Security of longstanding customs and traditions
    -Deep distrust for unproven promises of abstract theories
    -Pragmatism flexible and can acknowledge complex and altering realities in a way that rationalism cannot
  • Rand:
    -Objectivism
    -Atomistic society where individuals enjoy negative freedom
    -Heavily disagreed with organic society as the obligations demanded from individuals eroded their freedoms
    -Only moral purpose of society to protect individual rights
    -Voluntarism to provide social welfare so long as it was the individual's choice and not imposed by the state
  • Nozick:
    -Private property
    -Voluntary cooperation in a society