Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... nature and function of " pru- dence " in his political philosophy . For Burke , political philosophy was the practical art of govern- ing man as a moral agent in civil society . It was not and could not be a speculative science dealing ...
... nature and function of " pru- dence " in his political philosophy . For Burke , political philosophy was the practical art of govern- ing man as a moral agent in civil society . It was not and could not be a speculative science dealing ...
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... nature ; for any other utility may be the util- ity of a robber . " In his attack on Warren Hastings ' " system of ... natural and civil rights are derived . He believed that when claims to individual " rights " conflicted with moral ...
... nature ; for any other utility may be the util- ity of a robber . " In his attack on Warren Hastings ' " system of ... natural and civil rights are derived . He believed that when claims to individual " rights " conflicted with moral ...
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... Natural Law in " this lower world " of civil society , prudence underlies Burke's sensitive regard for men's dif ... Natural Law and prudence made his political philosophy thoroughly consistent , yet almost wholly unsystematic . Natural ...
... Natural Law in " this lower world " of civil society , prudence underlies Burke's sensitive regard for men's dif ... Natural Law and prudence made his political philosophy thoroughly consistent , yet almost wholly unsystematic . Natural ...
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... Natural Law , and eighteenth - century aberrations from " Nature " put forth by revolutionaries under slogans such as the " natural rights of man . " As Jacques Maritain has said : " The idea of natural law . . . does not go back to the ...
... Natural Law , and eighteenth - century aberrations from " Nature " put forth by revolutionaries under slogans such as the " natural rights of man . " As Jacques Maritain has said : " The idea of natural law . . . does not go back to the ...
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... natural rights , " but insisted that what he really meant was " civil rights , " based upon conventions rather than on ... nature , but far more than Hume he reversed the scheme of values implied by the sys- tem of natural law . • With ...
... natural rights , " but insisted that what he really meant was " civil rights , " based upon conventions rather than on ... nature , but far more than Hume he reversed the scheme of values implied by the sys- tem of natural law . • With ...
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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