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 Each text is prefaced by a summary and notes to the texts elucidate the literary and historical references.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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Page xxiii
... question God's Providence . God was assumed to be wise , benevolent and powerful , so His actions would be well - calculated for a beneficial end and move certainly towards it , however unclearly to man's eyes . Thus , we read that ...
... question God's Providence . God was assumed to be wise , benevolent and powerful , so His actions would be well - calculated for a beneficial end and move certainly towards it , however unclearly to man's eyes . Thus , we read that ...
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... questions of the day and so enabled him to apply his view of government in a given way . In the England of the 1760s , for instance , George III could as plausibly seem the embodi- ment of hierarchy , and certainly claimed to be as much ...
... questions of the day and so enabled him to apply his view of government in a given way . In the England of the 1760s , for instance , George III could as plausibly seem the embodi- ment of hierarchy , and certainly claimed to be as much ...
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... questions and with the story of whole nations . Whilst his writings of the twenty - five years from 1765 show continuity of concern , they display a narrowing of focus and the specifications of party . But we must beware of attribu ...
... questions and with the story of whole nations . Whilst his writings of the twenty - five years from 1765 show continuity of concern , they display a narrowing of focus and the specifications of party . But we must beware of attribu ...
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Edmund Burke Ian Harris. brought up to think of other questions : to think particularly of standards of probity and decency which would make him an example for lesser men to imitate . On Burke's view of human nature , the latter would ...
Edmund Burke Ian Harris. brought up to think of other questions : to think particularly of standards of probity and decency which would make him an example for lesser men to imitate . On Burke's view of human nature , the latter would ...
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... question , see below , p . 138 ) . Lowther opposed the American war and helped the younger Pitt's ( qv ) rise . He balanced economic improvement ( as building up Whitehaven ) with personal meanness ( withholding debts from the ...
... question , see below , p . 138 ) . Lowther opposed the American war and helped the younger Pitt's ( qv ) rise . He balanced economic improvement ( as building up Whitehaven ) with personal meanness ( withholding debts from the ...
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 |