POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Red Tory, Social Democracy, Economic Liberalism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Eleanor Mac Donald

Document Summary

Reference to ancient and medieval political thought notions of nobility, tradition revolutions. Development through 19th and into 20th century. Affiliated with social democracy in red tory politics (red justification for state intervention, but state intervention was for conservative principles) Affiliated more recently with neo-liberalism in neo-conservative politics: traditional values combined with a neo-liberal economics. Human nature is intricate and complex we can never fully understand human nature and not going to base a whole theory on one thing (no such thing as a common human nature) The importance of order and stability, of ritual. Lecture outline: history, basic tenets of conservatism, conservative state, social change, ideology how they understand it, contemporary trends in conservatism. History: liberals: constantly striving for perfection and constrast to that is that we are imperfect creatures and accepting imperfectability is accepting order and tradition. Practical reason: prudence, knowing how to get things done.