The Useful Cobbler: Edmund Burke and the Politics of ProgressNeither a polemic nor a highly specialized study, this book is a comprehensive assessment of Burke's political thought. Using evidence from such neglected sources as Burke's essays on history and law and making full use of his extensive correspondence, the author places Burke in the context of developments in a number of areas of eighteenth-century British intellectual life, ranging from philosophy to literature, and presents him as a key figure in the evolution of the theory and practice of representative government. |
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... Burke , then , was one of the most important contributors to the intellectual synthesis , based on the acceptance of ... argued that all abstract or " metaphysical " styles of political reasoning , including natural law theories , are ...
... Burke , then , was one of the most important contributors to the intellectual synthesis , based on the acceptance of ... argued that all abstract or " metaphysical " styles of political reasoning , including natural law theories , are ...
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Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. perhaps , not be ... believed , to undermine all attempts to establish objective moral values ... argue that Burke's first major published work , A Philosophical Enquiry into the ...
Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. perhaps , not be ... believed , to undermine all attempts to establish objective moral values ... argue that Burke's first major published work , A Philosophical Enquiry into the ...
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Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. tract theory and his arguments on prescription and presumption . Moreover , it provided a dynamic element to his thought and , there- fore , a means of conceptualizing and ...
Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. tract theory and his arguments on prescription and presumption . Moreover , it provided a dynamic element to his thought and , there- fore , a means of conceptualizing and ...
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... Burke would place on religious expression flowed from political rather than ... believed that the state had adequate au- thority to carry out the kind of ... believed that governmental social and economic policy should be based on ...
... Burke would place on religious expression flowed from political rather than ... believed that the state had adequate au- thority to carry out the kind of ... believed that governmental social and economic policy should be based on ...
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... Burke's attempts to frame a con- sistent theory of political party as a ... argued that the English Parliament was both the local Parliament of England ... Burke's initial theory of the Empire proved inad- equate , for he could not ...
... Burke's attempts to frame a con- sistent theory of political party as a ... argued that the English Parliament was both the local Parliament of England ... Burke's initial theory of the Empire proved inad- equate , for he could not ...
Contents
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The Whiggism of History and the History of Whiggism | 53 |
Burke on the Foundations and Nature of Government | 85 |
Burke on the Nature and Extent of State Authority | 113 |
The Politics of Trusteeship | 137 |
Political Parties and Their Uses | 161 |
The Decline and Fall of the Theory of Sovereignty | 185 |
The French Revolution and the Crisis of European | 215 |
Ireland India and the Deluge | 251 |
Notes | 275 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 355 |
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