Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... virtue , in politics the first of virtues . " For the past century , the most common single error of writers on Burke has been the failure to understand the nature and function of " pru- dence " in his political philosophy . For Burke ...
... virtue , in politics the first of virtues . " For the past century , the most common single error of writers on Burke has been the failure to understand the nature and function of " pru- dence " in his political philosophy . For Burke ...
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... virtue ; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction and ... virtues political and moral , but she is the director , the reg- ulator , the standard of them all . Burke always ...
... virtue ; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction and ... virtues political and moral , but she is the director , the reg- ulator , the standard of them all . Burke always ...
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... virtue because it supplies the prac- tical means by which Natural Law principles are fulfilled in the var- ious concrete circumstances of man's social life . Burke's prudence is not the utilitarian computation of circumstances , a ...
... virtue because it supplies the prac- tical means by which Natural Law principles are fulfilled in the var- ious concrete circumstances of man's social life . Burke's prudence is not the utilitarian computation of circumstances , a ...
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... virtues , should ever be the guide of vices . " Burke distinguished carefully between a true and false adherent of moral prudence : " Our love to the occasional- ist , but not server of occasions . " In any conflict between merely ...
... virtues , should ever be the guide of vices . " Burke distinguished carefully between a true and false adherent of moral prudence : " Our love to the occasional- ist , but not server of occasions . " In any conflict between merely ...
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... virtue of Temperance . " Burke believed that " the restraints on men are to be reckoned among their rights . " In civil society , the moral law alone was insuf- ficient to restrain the passions of men . The most immediate re- straints ...
... virtue of Temperance . " Burke believed that " the restraints on men are to be reckoned among their rights . " In civil society , the moral law alone was insuf- ficient to restrain the passions of men . The most immediate re- straints ...
Contents
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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 |
IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION | 251 |
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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