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Undoubtedly, Burke's mixed religious background played a key role in determining his whole intellectual, moral, aesthetic, and social temperament and character. Also, beginning in 1741, his education at Ballitore in County Kildare, ...
Undoubtedly, Burke's mixed religious background played a key role in determining his whole intellectual, moral, aesthetic, and social temperament and character. Also, beginning in 1741, his education at Ballitore in County Kildare, ...
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In 1775 he invoked Aristotle in maintaining that neither a priori reasoning nor inductive empirical experience analytically arranged could ever attain a geometric certainty in moral and political affairs: "Man acts from adequate motives ...
In 1775 he invoked Aristotle in maintaining that neither a priori reasoning nor inductive empirical experience analytically arranged could ever attain a geometric certainty in moral and political affairs: "Man acts from adequate motives ...
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... to Blackstone," because Coke had inspired his seventeenth-century successors in legal theory to give a strong moral and constitutional basis to English civil liberty under the common law. Among the men who followed Coke was Selden, ...
... to Blackstone," because Coke had inspired his seventeenth-century successors in legal theory to give a strong moral and constitutional basis to English civil liberty under the common law. Among the men who followed Coke was Selden, ...
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... prescription in positive law, all infuse and inform his political philosophy, his sense of Europe as a great commonwealth of nations with a common moral and legal inheritance, and his faith in the historical processes of tradition.
... prescription in positive law, all infuse and inform his political philosophy, his sense of Europe as a great commonwealth of nations with a common moral and legal inheritance, and his faith in the historical processes of tradition.
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But in his tract on the Popery laws, for the first time he set forth the essential moral and philosophical principles of his later political philosophy, based on the Natural Law. Burke's Irish experience under Hamilton was a sound ...
But in his tract on the Popery laws, for the first time he set forth the essential moral and philosophical principles of his later political philosophy, based on the Natural Law. Burke's Irish experience under Hamilton was a sound ...
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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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