LIBERAL Key Thinkers: Independent Research Project

You will be assigned a key conservative thinker. You will need to research this individual, and then peer teach the class. You will lead a 30 minute seminar on your key thinker.

*A seminar is a class at university in which a topic is discussed by a teacher and a small group of students

In preparation for your seminar you should create;

• a powerpoint
• a detailed hand-out/mind map
• an activity

For your assigned thinker you need to include the following:

• Background
  (school, university, profession)
• Famous published works
• Key Ideas
  (linked to core principles)
  • Individualism
  • freedom/liberty
  • State
  • Rationalism
  • Equality/social justice
  • Liberal democracy
• How does your key thinker view the following?
  • Human nature
  • The state
  • Society
  • Economy
• How have they contributed to the evolution of liberalism?

The key thinkers are:

• John Locke
  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
• Mary Wollstonecraft
  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wollstonecraft/
• John Stuart Mill
  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill/
• John Rawls
  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/
• Betty Friedan
  https://theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/06/guardianobituaries.gender