Key thinkers (summary)

• Micheal Oakeshott


  Key Ideas: human imperfection, pragmatism

  Books: On being Conservative (1964)

  Quotes: "Imperfect not immoral"
• Thomas Hobbes


  Key Ideas: human nature, order

  Books: Leviathan (1651)

  Quotes: "Nasty, brutish and short"
• Edmund Burke


  Key Ideas: changes should be cautious, tradition and empiricism

  Books: Reflections on the revolution in France (1790)

  Quotes: "Little Platoons"
• Ayn Rand


  Key Ideas: objectivism, freedom

  Books: Atlas Shrugged (1957)

  Quotes: "An embryo has no rights"
• Robert Nozick


  Key Ideas: libertarianism, self-ownership

  Books: Anarchy, state and Utopia (1974)

  Quotes: "Tax for the most part is theft"