Reflections on the Revolution in FranceCourier Corporation, 29 sie 2012 - 256 Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It provoked an enormous reaction, both supportive and critical, with a flood of pamphlets and books (including Thomas Paine's enduring denunciation, The Rights of Man). Endlessly reprinted and studied by countless scholars and other readers, this is a classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought. Burke ranked among the era's most eloquent defenders of democracy; however, he also realized the dangers of unchecked liberty and that mob rule is in no way better than the reign of a king or dictator. His lucid and passionate manifesto, written in the form of letters, employs examples from the aftermath of the French Revolution to demonstrate the superiority of gradual political change over outright anti-authoritarian revolt. A believer in practicality rather than abstract theorizing, Burke articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that continues to resonate with twenty-first century readers. |
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... moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society, be he who he will; and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause, in the whole course of my public conduct. I think I envy liberty as little as ...
... moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society, be he who he will; and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause, in the whole course of my public conduct. I think I envy liberty as little as ...
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... morality and religion; with the solidity of property; with peace and order; with civil and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to ...
... morality and religion; with the solidity of property; with peace and order; with civil and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to ...
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... morals and with piety, as to make it deserving not only of the secular applause of dashing Machiavelian politicians ... moral and religious sentiments, and not ill expressed, mixed up in a sort of porridge of various political opinions ...
... morals and with piety, as to make it deserving not only of the secular applause of dashing Machiavelian politicians ... moral and religious sentiments, and not ill expressed, mixed up in a sort of porridge of various political opinions ...
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... moral sense in which necessity can be taken. In the very act, in which for a time, and in a single case, parliament departed from the strict order of inheritance, in favour of a prince, who, though not next, was however very near in the ...
... moral sense in which necessity can be taken. In the very act, in which for a time, and in a single case, parliament departed from the strict order of inheritance, in favour of a prince, who, though not next, was however very near in the ...
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... moral competence, subjecting, even in powers more indisputably sovereign, occasional will to permanent reason, and ... morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons; no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its ...
... moral competence, subjecting, even in powers more indisputably sovereign, occasional will to permanent reason, and ... morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons; no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its ...
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