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Burke And The French Revolution The French Revolution is without question one of the two or three most important historical events of modern times, and signalized a great and enduring change in the world's affairs.
Burke And The French Revolution The French Revolution is without question one of the two or three most important historical events of modern times, and signalized a great and enduring change in the world's affairs.
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To Burke, "no moral questions are ever abstract questions." Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction ...
To Burke, "no moral questions are ever abstract questions." Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction ...
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The two most important questions to be answered concerning Burke's political philosophy are (1) What, to Burke, were the basic principles ... The second question has already been answered in considering his principle of moral prudence.
The two most important questions to be answered concerning Burke's political philosophy are (1) What, to Burke, were the basic principles ... The second question has already been answered in considering his principle of moral prudence.
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For purposes of convenience, these questions can be stated separately. But in the close fusion of theory and practice in politics, they are ideally one and the same question, although man as a finite and fallible creature can ...
For purposes of convenience, these questions can be stated separately. But in the close fusion of theory and practice in politics, they are ideally one and the same question, although man as a finite and fallible creature can ...
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The much belabored question of his political consistency can never be resolved on the political level alone, within history, without recourse to the moral principles which underlie his politics. He changed his partisan political front, ...
The much belabored question of his political consistency can never be resolved on the political level alone, within history, without recourse to the moral principles which underlie his politics. He changed his partisan political front, ...
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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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