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 Each text is prefaced by a summary and notes to the texts elucidate the literary and historical references.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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... sense of the range of authors indispensable for such an understanding , and the series will reflect those developments . It will also include a number of less well- known works , in particular those needed to establish the intellectual ...
... sense of the range of authors indispensable for such an understanding , and the series will reflect those developments . It will also include a number of less well- known works , in particular those needed to establish the intellectual ...
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... sense that the two doctrines had the same effect . Both removed what Burke understood by God from the explana- tion of human concerns . For they involved a denial of at least some of what Christians understood as His government of the ...
... sense that the two doctrines had the same effect . Both removed what Burke understood by God from the explana- tion of human concerns . For they involved a denial of at least some of what Christians understood as His government of the ...
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... sense forgot to treat man as dependent and regarded him mostly as a created being . God as creator was said to have endowed man with a sense of beauty and this sense provided also a basis for moral judgement . Man's dependence on God ...
... sense forgot to treat man as dependent and regarded him mostly as a created being . God as creator was said to have endowed man with a sense of beauty and this sense provided also a basis for moral judgement . Man's dependence on God ...
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... sense . We should bear in mind a contrast which Burke's experience impressed upon him . It lay between a providential development and the triumph of violent destruction . The contrast is exemplified in the difference between the country ...
... sense . We should bear in mind a contrast which Burke's experience impressed upon him . It lay between a providential development and the triumph of violent destruction . The contrast is exemplified in the difference between the country ...
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... sense of the general provided the presuppositions of his particular views . This often distinguished him from his political colleagues . For he differed from them regularly : some felt his Present Discontents pointed too directly ...
... sense of the general provided the presuppositions of his particular views . This often distinguished him from his political colleagues . For he differed from them regularly : some felt his Present Discontents pointed too directly ...
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 |