REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCEStrelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 4 wrz 2018 Reflections on the Revolution in France by an English-Irish politician Edmund Burke is a philosophico-political treatise that widely criticizes the revolutionary method programms for rebuilding the society. It was written in the middle of the French Revolution in 1790. The treatise caused a wide social discussion, in particular because of the parallel oratorical activity of Burke in the Parlainment and as a bright expression of the ideology of conservatism. In his work Burke criticized sharply and categorically the French Revolution as an attempt to destroy the entrenched social order and change it into a theoretic, and that is why inviable, scheme of social relations, which was developed by encyclopedic philosophers. |
Z wnętrza książki
Wyniki 1 - 5 z 22
... whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.
... direct line of hereditary succession. The crown was carried somewhat out of the line in which it had before moved; but the new line was derived from the same stock. It was still a line of hereditary descent; still an hereditary descent ...
... direct opposition to one of the wisest and most beautiful parts of our Constitution, that "a king is no more than the first servant of the public, created by it, and responsible to it." Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have ...
... direct or indirect, is, indeed, great: and long may it be able to preserve its greatness, and the spirit belonging to true greatness, at the full!-and it will do so, as long as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming the ...
... direct or indirect, to select the man with a view to the duty, or to accommodate the one to the other. I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too ...
Spis treści
Sekcja 2 | |
Sekcja 3 | 3 |
Sekcja 4 | 6 |
Sekcja 5 | 10 |
Sekcja 6 | 12 |
Sekcja 7 | 16 |
Sekcja 8 | 17 |
Sekcja 9 | 19 |
Sekcja 10 | 20 |
Sekcja 11 | 27 |
Sekcja 12 | 30 |
Sekcja 13 | 34 |
Sekcja 14 | 37 |
Sekcja 15 | 41 |