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items in his library were works containing discussions of Natural Law by Aristotle, such as his Ethics and Politics and ... including such classics as Grotius's On the Law of War and Peace, Pufendorf s On the Law of Nature and Nations, ...
items in his library were works containing discussions of Natural Law by Aristotle, such as his Ethics and Politics and ... including such classics as Grotius's On the Law of War and Peace, Pufendorf s On the Law of Nature and Nations, ...
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In May 1756 Burke became an author by publishing A Vindication of Natural Society. This work was an ironical satire on the religious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's "natural" religion, applied to society by an assumed antithesis ...
In May 1756 Burke became an author by publishing A Vindication of Natural Society. This work was an ironical satire on the religious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's "natural" religion, applied to society by an assumed antithesis ...
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His conviction that "reason is but a part of human nature" made him distrust a merely rational or logical approach to any subject, and to suspect easy definitions. In his "Essay on Taste," prefixed to the second edition of his Sublime ...
His conviction that "reason is but a part of human nature" made him distrust a merely rational or logical approach to any subject, and to suspect easy definitions. In his "Essay on Taste," prefixed to the second edition of his Sublime ...
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Thus, his three early literary works reveal that history as a preceptor of prudence, and the Natural Law as an ... In his book reviews of Rousseau's early work, he rejected wholly the antithesis between "art" and "Nature," and the ...
Thus, his three early literary works reveal that history as a preceptor of prudence, and the Natural Law as an ... In his book reviews of Rousseau's early work, he rejected wholly the antithesis between "art" and "Nature," and the ...
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Burke's opposition to the theory of natural rights and to the use of nature as the norm in political theory was ... a conviction unshaken during his whole career." In 1940, John H. Randall repeated this point, and during the 1940's two ...
Burke's opposition to the theory of natural rights and to the use of nature as the norm in political theory was ... a conviction unshaken during his whole career." In 1940, John H. Randall repeated this point, and during the 1940's two ...
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Contents
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| 19 | |
| 47 | |
An Abridgment of English History 1757 | 76 |
Selections from Book Reviews in the Annual Register | 104 |
A Short Account of a Late Short Administration 1766 | 117 |
Speech on Conciliation 1775 | 176 |
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1777 | 223 |
Tract on the Popery Laws 1765 | 253 |
A Letter to a Peer of Ireland 1782 | 274 |
A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe 1792 | 288 |
A Letter to Richard Burke 1793 | 320 |
A Letter to William Smith 1795 | 330 |
Speech on Economical Reform 1780 | 341 |
Speech on the Middlesex Election 1771 | 363 |
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| Title | Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Peter James Stanlis |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 141282222X, 9781412822220 |
| Length | 585 pages |
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