1. Conservatism: Origins, Traditions and Thinkers Lecture 1 May 16, 2006

2. Important Concepts: Right and Left Political Spectrum Radical and Reactionary

6. Classical Liberalism Montesquieu (1748) John Locke (1670s) Adams Smith (1776) Thomas Jefferson (1776) John Stuart Mill (1859)

7. Modern Liberalism John Rawls (1971) John M. Keynes (1919) Isaiah Berlin (1969)

8. The French Revolution

9. Joseph de Maistre

10. Edmund Burke

11. A new concern? NO T. Hobbes in Leviathan (1651) Life without government is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”

12. The American Revolution-1776

13. "a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve".

14. Loyalists vs. Revolutionaries

15. Declaration of Independence “ Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ”

16. Back to Burke’s definition: The American Dilemma… What to preserve?

17. Louis Hartz The Liberal Tradition in America

18. Two Orientations: Community and Individuals

19. Two Orientations: Community Traditionalist-Reformist

20. “Organicists” Russell Kirk -more concerned with reversing -negative view of society

21. “Reformists” Peter Viereck -concerned with adaptation -positivist of society

22. Paleoconservatives 1)Nativists 2)Isolationists 3)Protectionists 4)State Right’s 5)Anti-Welfare State

23. Neoconservatives 1)Opportunity 2)Interventionism 3)Free Trade 4)National Government 5)Conservative Welfare State

24. The Problem of Organicists Goes back to Burke… What to Preserve? Is conservatism ahistorical? Is there a starting point?