SOCIAL 30 FLASSHHCARDS PEOPLE UNIT 1
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Thomas Hobbes
Life is nasty, brutish and short
John Locke
Father of liberalism - classical liberalism Right to property religious tolerance
Jean-Jacques Rrousseau
‘Man is born free yet everywhere is in chains’ state of nature is generous and loving, society corrupts people children should be raised without intervention by the state
Voltaire
Separation of church and state
Montesquieu
separation of powers
invisible hand
forces which move the free market economy through individual self interest and freedom of prroduction
Adam Smith
Father of economics The Wealth of Nations - book on free market Laissez faire economics invisible hand
John Stuart Mill
The greatest good for the greatest number (utilitarianism) harm principle
Utilitarianism
morality which advocates for the happiness and pleasure of all aiming for the betterment of society as a whole
harm principle
if your actions do not harm others you are free to do whatever you want.
Mary Woolstencroft
opposed place of women in society initially hopeful of the french revolution but became disillusioned
Flora Tristan
rejected womens legal and social marginalization especially women of the working class worked with early socialists
Olympe de Gouges
Questioned the motivations of the french revolutionaries died at guillotine A declaration of the rights of women and the female citizen
Edmund Burke
Classical conservatism property is important thought french revolution is bad american revolution is good
enfranchisement
given rights to vote
The Franchise
right to vote in public elections or referendums
price system
laissez faire ecconomics
no government involvement in economy -free market
meritocracy
power in individuals with great amounts of capability and achievement
classical conservatism
traditional moral principles advocate for an elite to rule society due to classical liberalism
laissez faire
let go economics, no government involvement