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In the following slides, you will be asked a series of questions.
Answer honestly – only your opinion matters.
You will not be asked to share your results.
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1. ________ 6. ________
2. ________ 7. ________
3. ________ 8. ________
4. ________ 9. ________
5. ________ 10. ________
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1. Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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2. Government should not control radio, TV, the press,
or the Internet.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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3. Repeal regulations on sex by consenting adults.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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4. Drug laws do more harm than good.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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5. Let peaceful people cross borders freely.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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6. Businesses and farms should operate without government subsidies.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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7. People are better off with free trade than with tariffs.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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8. There should be no minimum wage laws.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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9. Government services should be paid for with user fees, not taxes.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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10. All foreign aid should be privately funded.
Yes = 2 Maybe = 1 No = 0
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Minimum WageReduced TaxesGay MarriageMandatory Prayer in Public School
Prohibit Prayer in Public SchoolFree TradeDrug War
“Liberal” versus “Conservative”?
“Conservative”
“Liberal”
Mandatory Health Care
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Two spheres in which humans exercise freedoms:
Social sphere where they choose how to behave
Economic sphere where they enter into contracts with others
The two spheres are not necessarily independent.
Choice to marry a goat = social choice
Choice to buy foreign goods = economic choice
Choice to do drugs = social choice
Choice to buy drugs = economic choice
Less Freedom vs. More Freedom
Less Freedom More Freedom
Mandatory Health Care
Minimum Wage
Reduced Taxes
Gay Marriage
Mandatory Prayer in Public School
Drug War
Prohibit Prayer in Public School
Free Trade
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Less Social Freedom More Social Freedom
More Economic Freedom
Less Economic Freedom
Less Individual Freedom vs. More Individual Freedom
Mandatory Health Care
Minimum Wage
Reduced Taxes
Gay Marriage
Mandatory Prayer in Public School
Drug War
Prohibit Prayer in Public School
Free Trade
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Who is “Liberal” and Who is “Conservative”?
“Conservative”
“Liberal”
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Who is “Liberal” and Who is “Conservative”?
Less Social Freedom
More Economic Freedom
Less Economic Freedom
More Social Freedom
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Eco
nom
ic F
reedom
Social Freedom
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0
10
50 10
7
3
73
Centrist
Democrat
Republican Libertarian
Authoritarian
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Ideologies
Democrat
Republican
Libertarian
Socialist
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Ideology
Start with outcomes
What do we want?
• Living wage
• Less greenhouse gases
• More trade
• Health care
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Contradictions Arise When We Start At Outcomes
Estate Tax = Yes!
Serfdom = Yes?
Principle: All property ultimately belongs to the state
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Estate Tax = Yes!
Poverty = Yes?
Principle: Wealth should be distributed equally
Contradictions Arise When We Start At Outcomes
Principle: All property ultimately belongs to the state
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Estate Tax = Yes!
Slavery = Yes?
Principle: Everyone’s basic needs should be provided
Contradictions Arise When We Start At Outcomes
Principle: All property ultimately belongs to the state
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Estate Tax = Yes!
Intelligent Design = Yes?
Principle: Systems cannot be left to evolve but must be designed
Contradictions Arise When We Start At Outcomes
Principle: Everyone’s basic needs should be provided
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Ideology
Start with outcomes
What do we want?
• Living wage
• Less greenhouse gases
• More trade
• Health care
Philosophy
Start with principles
What is true?
• People own themselves
• Rules apply to all people equally
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Principles Avoid Contradictions
People own their labor
People own the wages they receive in exchange for their
labor
People own the things they receive in exchange for their
wagesEstate Tax =
No.
Principle: People own themselves
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Ideologies
Democrat
Republican
Libertarian
Socialist
Philosophies
Catholic Social Thought
Classical Liberalism
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First Principle of Catholic Social Thought
Human DignityPeople are created in God’s
image and likeness.
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Derived Principles of Catholic Social Thought
SolidarityPeople have the responsibility to help each other live in a manner consonant with human dignity.
Common GoodPeople have the responsibility to pursue conditions that allow others to share in and respond to human dignity more fully and more easily.
SubsidiarityResponsibilities that lesser and subordinate organizations can accomplish should not be assigned to greater and higher associations.
Human MotivationPeople are self-interested
and have differing preferences.
EqualityPrinciples apply to all
people equally.
Self-OwnershipPeople own their own lives.
Human ConditionPeople are volitional and
capable of rational thought.
Human LimitationsPeople are neither
omnipotent nor omniscient.
First Principles of Classical LiberalismHuman DignityPeople are created in God’s
image and likeness.
CST Subsumes Classical Liberalism
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SolidarityPeople have the responsibility to help each other live in a manner consonant with human dignity.
Common GoodPeople have the responsibility to pursue conditions that allow others to share in and respond to human dignity more fully and more easily.
SubsidiarityResponsibilities that lesser and subordinate organizations can accomplish should not be assigned to greater and higher associations.
Human MotivationPeople are self-interested and have differing preferences.
EqualityPrinciples apply to all people equally.
Self-OwnershipPeople own their own lives.
Human ConditionPeople are volitional and capable of rational thought.
Human LimitationsPeople are neither omnipotent nor omniscient.
Human DignityPeople are created in God’s
image and likeness.
CST Subsumes Classical LiberalismGuide to the Relationship of Church and State
How we should exercise our free wills. How we may exercise our free
wills.
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