Edmund BurkePeter James Stanlis Transaction Publishers - 129 pages |
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Page xii
... attacks on him begin to be published . Dr. Stanlis's essays and reviews during the past forty years , meant chiefly to clarify Americans ' understanding of Burke , have carried on the discussion of his political and economic principles ...
... attacks on him begin to be published . Dr. Stanlis's essays and reviews during the past forty years , meant chiefly to clarify Americans ' understanding of Burke , have carried on the discussion of his political and economic principles ...
Page xix
... attacks on him in Parliament regarding his stand on the French Revolution , is largely an analysis of the Revolution of 1688. Thus , in these two important works , and in other writings relating to the French Revolution , Burke appealed ...
... attacks on him in Parliament regarding his stand on the French Revolution , is largely an analysis of the Revolution of 1688. Thus , in these two important works , and in other writings relating to the French Revolution , Burke appealed ...
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... attacked what he called " metaphysical " or " abstract " rights , and that he generally placed against such " rights " arguments of moral prudence , legal 3 expediency , and practical utility . Buckle was the first Part One: Burke's ...
... attacked what he called " metaphysical " or " abstract " rights , and that he generally placed against such " rights " arguments of moral prudence , legal 3 expediency , and practical utility . Buckle was the first Part One: Burke's ...
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... attack the doctrine as a theorist denouncing a theory , but as a politician whose interest is fixed on the application of the doctrine to politics . " 12 By " rights " MacCunn assumed Burke meant civil rather than natural rights , so ...
... attack the doctrine as a theorist denouncing a theory , but as a politician whose interest is fixed on the application of the doctrine to politics . " 12 By " rights " MacCunn assumed Burke meant civil rather than natural rights , so ...
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... attack , ready in defence , full of resources . " In addition to his frequent remarks in parliament , Burke's interest in the law is suggested in the volumes of his library , which included the works of many writers , both ancient and ...
... attack , ready in defence , full of resources . " In addition to his frequent remarks in parliament , Burke's interest in the law is suggested in the volumes of his library , which included the works of many writers , both ancient and ...
Contents
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Burke and the Law of Nations | 64 |
Burke the Perennial Political Philosopher | 106 |
Burkes Critique of the Enlightenment | 115 |
Burke and the Rationalism of the Enlightenment | 117 |
Burke and the Sensibility of Rousseau | 161 |
Burke and Revolution | 195 |
Burkes General View of Revolution | 197 |
Burke and the Revolution of 1688 | 218 |
Index | 257 |
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Page 186 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Page 16 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page xvi - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Page 156 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.
Page 44 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Page 5 - Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power to give or to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy.
Page 84 - In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights. But as the liberties and the restrictions vary with times and circumstances, and admit of infinite modifications, they cannot be settled upon any abstract rule ; and nothing is so foolish as to discuss them upon that principle.
Page 48 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death.
Page 243 - It is besides a very great mistake to imagine, that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as. far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution, or even the whole of it together.
Page 201 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear ; every hope will forward it; and t/ien they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.