Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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Page 39
... institutional arrangements inherited from the past . It is a common error to construe his refusal to appeal to universal and eternal absolute moral principles at every point as a denial of belief in such principles . Also , as a ...
... institutional arrangements inherited from the past . It is a common error to construe his refusal to appeal to universal and eternal absolute moral principles at every point as a denial of belief in such principles . Also , as a ...
Page 40
... institutions , or in the revelations of religion and right reason . Burke's politics involves much more than his initial response and subsequent method of reasoning on concrete political situa- tions . Without his faith in the Natural ...
... institutions , or in the revelations of religion and right reason . Burke's politics involves much more than his initial response and subsequent method of reasoning on concrete political situa- tions . Without his faith in the Natural ...
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... institutions depend on reason or nature , but far more than Hume he reversed the scheme of values implied by the sys- tem of natural law . • With such a universal chorus of learned authorities proclaiming Burke an apostle of expediency ...
... institutions depend on reason or nature , but far more than Hume he reversed the scheme of values implied by the sys- tem of natural law . • With such a universal chorus of learned authorities proclaiming Burke an apostle of expediency ...
Page 48
... institutions are displayed with incomparable force of rea- soning and lustre of eloquence . " In the twentieth century Elie Halevy , in commenting upon Godwin's indictment of civil society , seems not even to have been aware that the ...
... institutions are displayed with incomparable force of rea- soning and lustre of eloquence . " In the twentieth century Elie Halevy , in commenting upon Godwin's indictment of civil society , seems not even to have been aware that the ...
Page 49
... institutions . Quite the re- verse . As an Aristotelian he believed that man is by nature a political or social animal , that " art is man's nature . " To Burke , civil society however imperfect was superior to any hypothetical simple ...
... institutions . Quite the re- verse . As an Aristotelian he believed that man is by nature a political or social animal , that " art is man's nature . " To Burke , civil society however imperfect was superior to any hypothetical simple ...
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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