Which passage explains the concept of Self interest/Conflict theory? Conservatism stresses a maintenance of established institutions, and prefer actions that generate gradual development
as opposed to abrupt changes (key word search "Edmund Burke" for more historical background). In contrast with
Anarchists, Conservatists generally see the government as a positive force It brings order out of chaos, institutes laws to
end the 'war of all against all", encourages moral virtue while punishing vice, and respects tradition.

This philosophy assumes that human beings are born with certain natural rights, and governments are established strictly
for the purpose of protecting those rights. Liberalism generally distinguish three or four fundamental natural rights:
a right to life
a right to liberty
a right to property
a right to the pursuit of happiness.

Modern democracy and most forms of socialism are built upon it. It embraces a concept that governments are formed by
Opeople in order to provide for collective needs (such as education, public and private, and poverty) that cannot be properly
fulfilled using purely individual resources

There are a group of political philosophies that are in opposition to the existence of a government Anarchism and
Marxism are two of the more well known Philosophers and practitioners of this group call attention to a point that
governments as well as private property began from the authority of warlords and paltry tyrants who conquered peoples
and territories. They began exercising authority over their vanquished.