Modern Conservatist Thought 2200-1CWPP13

1. Definition, sources and directions of the conservative thought. Its features and the main centres.
2. Conservatism in a contemporary meaning. Classical French absolutism.
3. Conservatism as a negation or as an affirmation of the Enlightment. The Edmund Burke case.
4. Conservatism in a German thought: I. The political romanticism: state, an individual and its rights in the conserwatist thought. II: Conservatism in the German idealism: Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling). A conservatist relation towards nationalism. III: "The conservatist revolution" in Germany in the Thirties of the 20th century. Carl Schmitt; Adolf Hitler coming to power. Normativism.
5. Conservatism as a reaction to the Enlightment: the French "teocraticism"; Joseph deMaistre and the reaction Russian model; the "July Monarchy" doctrine in France; Alexis de Tocqueville.
6. Conservatist views in a classical liberal thought of the 19th century: John Stuart Mill and the "representative government". Herbert Spencer as a precursor of the "conservative liberalism".
7. Conservatism in economic doctrines: Adam Smith, David Ricardo and a classical school of economy. Evolution of political conservatism in England; the torists - first contemporary conservatists in power.
8. Conservatism in the United States of America until the end of the 18th century; the contemporary "conservative liberalism". Hans Kelsen, Friedrich August von Hayek, Milton Friedmann.
9. Social science of the Roman-catholic church as a mean of a conservative thought.