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 Each text is prefaced by a summary and notes to the texts elucidate the literary and historical references.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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... Duties 1767 1768 Burke borrows to buy estate at Beaconsfield ; Wilkes elected for Middlesex ; reimprisoned ; riots in his favour ; Corsica falls to France ; elder Pitt resigns ; Grafton continues ministry 1769 Observations on the ...
... Duties 1767 1768 Burke borrows to buy estate at Beaconsfield ; Wilkes elected for Middlesex ; reimprisoned ; riots in his favour ; Corsica falls to France ; elder Pitt resigns ; Grafton continues ministry 1769 Observations on the ...
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... duties from their proper basis ' . By this he understood ' our reason , our relations , and our necessities ' ( PE , III.xi ) . He under- took to explain it theocentrically in ' Religion ' . This essay starts out from man's relation to ...
... duties from their proper basis ' . By this he understood ' our reason , our relations , and our necessities ' ( PE , III.xi ) . He under- took to explain it theocentrically in ' Religion ' . This essay starts out from man's relation to ...
Page xx
... duties . This leads us to the social order , for A Philosophical Enquiry shows how feeling involves a specific account of society . Before turning to Burke's general view of society it is as well to turn to what he rejected . Again ...
... duties . This leads us to the social order , for A Philosophical Enquiry shows how feeling involves a specific account of society . Before turning to Burke's general view of society it is as well to turn to what he rejected . Again ...
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... duty was intelligible through reason and passion , and had related the passions to God in his Philosophical Enquiry . But he insisted that the circle of man's compre- hension was limited . His knowledge of causes was small , for ' when ...
... duty was intelligible through reason and passion , and had related the passions to God in his Philosophical Enquiry . But he insisted that the circle of man's compre- hension was limited . His knowledge of causes was small , for ' when ...
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... duties ' in England.16 The differences between the two lands sug- gested a striking polarity . Burke's Tracts on the Popery Laws , dating from the early 1760s , saw Ireland as a country which was marked by its conquest . The central ...
... duties ' in England.16 The differences between the two lands sug- gested a striking polarity . Burke's Tracts on the Popery Laws , dating from the early 1760s , saw Ireland as a country which was marked by its conquest . The central ...
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 |