Title: To what extent is there agreement on the issue of society?
Introduction: Write a full introduction here after you’ve finished your plan. Include your argument, and the points /
themes you will explore. Each of these points / themes should be a new paragraph.
Conservatism is grounded in empiricism, meaning knowledge and evidence come from real experience and not
abstract theories and so conservatives believe that society is not created but emerges and grows, developing like an
organism. The extent to which there is agreement on the issue of society is however limited because of the different
views and beliefs of traditional, one-nation and New Right conservatives when it comes to an organic society,
maintaining society and an unequal society.
First point / theme:
Explanation & evidence: Counter argument: Evaluation and judgement:
- Traditional Conservatives see society - However, although One Nation - Conservatives agree on
like a living organism which depends on Conservatives agree with Traditional society being organic to a
healthy relationships between the Conservatives on the view of an limited extent because
different parts although there is an
organic society, One Nation thinkers,
→ each parts performing different agreement between
but equally important functions in such as Disraeli, feared that the new Traditional and One Nation
society class of individualistic businessmen Conservatives about the need
- Each of these parts perform different and landowners were not fulfilling their for individuals to fulfill their
but equally important functions within duties and commitments, like the feudal given duties, One Nationist
society. landowners used to. thinkers believed that certain
- Edmund Burke believed that just like - Therefore, certain roles in society roles in society were no longer
the brain and heart perform different but performing their functions.
were not performing their functions
equally important functions within the - Also, neo-liberals believe
human body, the lower, middle and upper effectively and so the nation was at risk that an organic society is
classes play vital roles in society. of being unequal. detrimental to individuals
- Therefore, hierarchy is unavoidable and - Furthermore, neo-liberals view society because it restricts their own
is caused by our upbringings and as being atomistic, not organic. beliefs and prevents them
different duties. - An atomistic society is one which from implementing their own
- Due to the fact that each social class exists as a loose collection of self- values.
relies on one another to function
interested and self-sufficient
effectively, individuals are not completely
separated from each other but instead individuals.
are connected. - Unlike Hobbes and Burke, Ayn Rand
- This organic view leads to a society that believed that the organic society is a
is better suited to moderate pragmatic construct that blunts the development
evolution. of the individual. So, an individual’s
- One Nation Conservatives agree with thinking is restricted due to the fact that
Traditional Conservatives on this view of
it is absorbed into the beliefs of society
an organic society to a certain extent.
- Disraeli, for example, believed it was whether or not those beliefs are
crucial that the different parts in society scientifically correct or morally right.
continued to fulfil their duties in order to - Rand also argues that altruism is
prevent any inequality. misrepresented in an organic society,
as it should not be a duty dictated by
the state but the rational action of an
Introduction: Write a full introduction here after you’ve finished your plan. Include your argument, and the points /
themes you will explore. Each of these points / themes should be a new paragraph.
Conservatism is grounded in empiricism, meaning knowledge and evidence come from real experience and not
abstract theories and so conservatives believe that society is not created but emerges and grows, developing like an
organism. The extent to which there is agreement on the issue of society is however limited because of the different
views and beliefs of traditional, one-nation and New Right conservatives when it comes to an organic society,
maintaining society and an unequal society.
First point / theme:
Explanation & evidence: Counter argument: Evaluation and judgement:
- Traditional Conservatives see society - However, although One Nation - Conservatives agree on
like a living organism which depends on Conservatives agree with Traditional society being organic to a
healthy relationships between the Conservatives on the view of an limited extent because
different parts although there is an
organic society, One Nation thinkers,
→ each parts performing different agreement between
but equally important functions in such as Disraeli, feared that the new Traditional and One Nation
society class of individualistic businessmen Conservatives about the need
- Each of these parts perform different and landowners were not fulfilling their for individuals to fulfill their
but equally important functions within duties and commitments, like the feudal given duties, One Nationist
society. landowners used to. thinkers believed that certain
- Edmund Burke believed that just like - Therefore, certain roles in society roles in society were no longer
the brain and heart perform different but performing their functions.
were not performing their functions
equally important functions within the - Also, neo-liberals believe
human body, the lower, middle and upper effectively and so the nation was at risk that an organic society is
classes play vital roles in society. of being unequal. detrimental to individuals
- Therefore, hierarchy is unavoidable and - Furthermore, neo-liberals view society because it restricts their own
is caused by our upbringings and as being atomistic, not organic. beliefs and prevents them
different duties. - An atomistic society is one which from implementing their own
- Due to the fact that each social class exists as a loose collection of self- values.
relies on one another to function
interested and self-sufficient
effectively, individuals are not completely
separated from each other but instead individuals.
are connected. - Unlike Hobbes and Burke, Ayn Rand
- This organic view leads to a society that believed that the organic society is a
is better suited to moderate pragmatic construct that blunts the development
evolution. of the individual. So, an individual’s
- One Nation Conservatives agree with thinking is restricted due to the fact that
Traditional Conservatives on this view of
it is absorbed into the beliefs of society
an organic society to a certain extent.
- Disraeli, for example, believed it was whether or not those beliefs are
crucial that the different parts in society scientifically correct or morally right.
continued to fulfil their duties in order to - Rand also argues that altruism is
prevent any inequality. misrepresented in an organic society,
as it should not be a duty dictated by
the state but the rational action of an
