Pre-Revolutionary WritingsThis is the first collection of the writings of Edmund Burke which precede Reflections on the Revolution in France, and the first to do justice to the connections and breadth of Burke's thought. A thinker whose range transcends formal boundaries, Burke has been highly prized by both conservatives and liberals, and this new edition charts the development of Burke's thought and its importance as a response to the events of his day. Burke's mind spanned theology, aesthetics, moral philosophy and history, as well as the political affairs of Ireland, England, America, India and France, and he united these concerns in his view of inequality. In the writings in this edition Burke indicated how societies embodying revealed religion and social hierarchy could sustain civilisation and political liberty. These thoughts reached their apogee in Reflections on the Revolution in France. This edition provides the student with all the necessary information for an understanding of the complexities of Burke's thought. Each text is prefaced by a summary and notes to the texts elucidate the literary and historical references. An introduction and biographical and bibliographical essays help place these works in the context of Burke's thought as a whole. |
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... government of the world . Burke developed a contrasting vision . He was keen to employ God in explanation , whether of man's aesthetic perceptions , of the social order , or of morality . Let us see how he came to apply this view to two ...
... government of the world . Burke developed a contrasting vision . He was keen to employ God in explanation , whether of man's aesthetic perceptions , of the social order , or of morality . Let us see how he came to apply this view to two ...
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... government of men ... stand in the person of God himself ( Ref , p . 189 ) : but this scarcely implies that those who were like God in power were like Him also in goodness . To put the matter another way , some modes of inequality might ...
... government of men ... stand in the person of God himself ( Ref , p . 189 ) : but this scarcely implies that those who were like God in power were like Him also in goodness . To put the matter another way , some modes of inequality might ...
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... government or the Roman Church placing political liberty high amongst their deliberate ends . Liberty , like improvement , was the common coin of eighteenth - century thought . The significant matter is how they were explained ; the ...
... government or the Roman Church placing political liberty high amongst their deliberate ends . Liberty , like improvement , was the common coin of eighteenth - century thought . The significant matter is how they were explained ; the ...
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... government . This feudalism both necessitated and provided . It was necessary because leaders were followed freely ( the sovereign ' was only a greater lord among great lords ' ( AEH , ш.i ) ) , and it was supplied by the code of honour ...
... government . This feudalism both necessitated and provided . It was necessary because leaders were followed freely ( the sovereign ' was only a greater lord among great lords ' ( AEH , ш.i ) ) , and it was supplied by the code of honour ...
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... government could determine whether these benefits would be secured to the governed or lost . So the contrast between governments well and badly constituted and conducted became integral to Burke's thought . The interests of his middle ...
... government could determine whether these benefits would be secured to the governed or lost . So the contrast between governments well and badly constituted and conducted became integral to Burke's thought . The interests of his middle ...
Contents
Extempore Commonplace on The Sermon of Our Saviour on the Mount | 1 |
Text | 3 |
A Vindication of Natural Society | 4 |
Analysis | 7 |
Text | 8 |
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | 58 |
Analysis | 61 |
Text | 63 |
Analysis | 114 |
Text | 116 |
Conciliation with America | 193 |
Analysis | 205 |
Text | 206 |
Almas Ali Khan | 270 |
Analysis | 275 |
Text | 277 |
Religion | 78 |
Analysis | 81 |
Text | 82 |
Tracts on the Popery Laws | 88 |
Analysis | 93 |
Text | 95 |
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents | 103 |
Speech on the Army Estimates | 298 |
Analysis | 305 |
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References to this book
Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: An Historical Introduction Tudor Jones No preview available - 2002 |