1. Cynthia Mathew's second reading mind map
  2. Dialectic
    1. Process of persuing the truth; digging deeper into things
  3. Fairness
    1. Unequally treated unequally
    2. Equals treated equally
  4. Ideology
    1. Specific societies
    2. Prescriptive guides of conduct
  5. Philosophy
    1. Love of wisdom
    2. Addresses 3 questions
    3. What is real
    4. What is the truth
    5. What is of value
  6. Early conservatism
    1. Hiearchy
  7. Subjects
    1. Trivium
      1. Grammar/Rhetoric
    2. Quadrivium
      1. Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy
  8. Right or Wrong is not the same as "Rights"
    1. Fair: humans being together
    2. Right: individual
  9. Characteristics of Plato's philosophy
    1. Hierarchy
    2. Incremental change
      1. Similarities with Conservatism
    3. Elite class
    4. Tradition
  10. Christianity
    1. What is right to do
      1. Sociable acceptable
      2. Prescribed by authorities
      3. Greatest benefit for larger numbers
  11. Roosevelt: second bill of rights
    1. Economic fairness
  12. Liberal Arts=superior than vocational
  13. Only a few have intellectual capacity
    1. Idea of hierarchy
    2. Not moral to take some people into the light
    3. Set up curriculum according to intellectual capacity
    4. St. John's
    5. Honors in college. IB programs in HS
  14. Analogy
    1. Comparison between two things
  15. Allegory
    1. Using context as a means of explaining
    2. Cave example
  16. Classical Liberalism
    1. Modern
    2. Progressive