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Parent topics
- Ideology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Government [r]: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. [e]
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
Subtopics
- Adam Smith [r]: Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790), a major contributor to the modern perception of free market economics; author of Wealth of Nations (1776). [e]
- John Locke [r]: (1632–1704) English empiricist philosopher. [e]
- John Rawls [r]: (1921–2002) American liberal political philosopher and professor at Harvard University. [e]
- American conservatism [r]: A diverse mix of political ideologies that contrast with liberalism, socialism, secularism and communism. [e]
- Anarchism [r]: Doctrine that all forms of government are undesirable and should be abolished. [e]
- Conservatism [r]: A concept of political theory used as a shortcut to refer to a wide swath of people who allegedly hold similar values. The conservative ideal does not really exist, as no two people would likely define it exactly the same. Generalizations often made about conservatives may include that they wish to limit social change, preserve traditional family values, abhor homosexuality, revere the military and exhibit staunch patriotism for their country, believe in fiscal restraint, decry foreign immigration, and do not wish to fund support for people in need on grounds that they must be lazy. [e]
- Libertarianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Republicanism [r]: The political ideology of a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty, rule by the people, and the civic virtue practiced by citizens. [e]
- Social Gospel [r]: Protestant intellectual movement that applied Christian principles to social problems. [e]
- Socialism [r]: Any socio-economic system in which property and distribution of wealth are controlled by a community, by cooperation law. [e]
- The Enlightenment [r]: An 18th-century movement in Western philosophy and intellectual life generally, that emphasized the power or reason and science to understand and reform the world. [e]
- Utilitarianism [r]: Philosophical doctrine created by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill which states that an action can be considered good to the extent that it increases the general level of happiness in society. [e]