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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... Hutcheson explain the mod- ern conservative's ambivalence toward Burke by suggesting that the radical branch of the movement finds it difficult to reconcile his many liberal views with his reputed Conservatism , while more moderate ...
... Hutcheson explain the mod- ern conservative's ambivalence toward Burke by suggesting that the radical branch of the movement finds it difficult to reconcile his many liberal views with his reputed Conservatism , while more moderate ...
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... Hutcheson and Hume , to solve the problem by postulating the existence of a moral sense also failed . Hence , in the Vindication of Natural Society , writ- ten before the Enquiry but revised and published after , Burke sought to block ...
... Hutcheson and Hume , to solve the problem by postulating the existence of a moral sense also failed . Hence , in the Vindication of Natural Society , writ- ten before the Enquiry but revised and published after , Burke sought to block ...
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... Hutcheson , Reid , and the moral sense school need never have written . Locke did not seek to avoid the moral consequences of his anal- ysis . Indeed , it was clear to him that , without innate ideas or a moral sense , man can not ...
... Hutcheson , Reid , and the moral sense school need never have written . Locke did not seek to avoid the moral consequences of his anal- ysis . Indeed , it was clear to him that , without innate ideas or a moral sense , man can not ...
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... Hutcheson , who had written with avowedly moral pur- pose : " You ask about Hutcheson's book and what is the difference . A great deal my friend . One is a moral , the other a critical work . The moral piece corrupts and the critical ...
... Hutcheson , who had written with avowedly moral pur- pose : " You ask about Hutcheson's book and what is the difference . A great deal my friend . One is a moral , the other a critical work . The moral piece corrupts and the critical ...
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... Hutcheson by denying that taste is either a moral sense or a faculty of the mind . As he put it , " to multiply principles for every different appearance is useless , and unphilosophical too in a high degree . " 41 To postulate a sense ...
... Hutcheson by denying that taste is either a moral sense or a faculty of the mind . As he put it , " to multiply principles for every different appearance is useless , and unphilosophical too in a high degree . " 41 To postulate a sense ...
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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