Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution
Author: Edmund BurkeOld Whigs
Author: Greg WeinerPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641770511
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln against disunion at a moment when the Northern situation appeared untenable. Placing their statesmanship and writings in relief helps to illuminate prudence in its full dimensions: inflected with caution but not confined to it, bound to circumstance, and finding expression in the particular but grounded in the absolute. This comparative study of two thinkers and statesmen who described themselves as “Old Whigs” argues for a recovery of prudence as the political virtue par excellence by viewing it through the eyes, words, and deeds of two of its foremost exemplars. Both statesmen who were deeply informed by the life of the mind, Burke and Lincoln illustrate prudence in its universal but also contrasting dimensions. Burke emphasized the primacy of feeling, Lincoln the axioms of logic. Burke saw British prudence emanating from the mists of ancient history; for Lincoln, America’s soul lay in a discrete moment of founding in 1776. Yet both were moved by a respect for the mysterious and customary. Each maintained the virtue of compromise while adhering to immovable commitments. At a time when American politics, and American conservatism in particular, teems with a desire for boldness but also an innate resistance to schemes of social or political transformation, this book answers with a fuller and richer account of prudence as it emerges in the thought and action of two of the greatest statesmen and thinkers of modern times.
Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
Author: Edmund BurkeAn Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs,
Author: Edmund BurkeAn Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: London : Printed for J. Dodsley
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Further Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN: 9780865970984
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A selected collection of Burke's later writings on the French Revolution, illuminating important dimensions of Burke's political and social philosophy beyond his Reflections on the revolution in France.
The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
Author: David DwanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495652
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.
An appeal from the new to the old Whigs, in consequence of some late discussions in Parliament, etc. By Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund BurkeAn Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Author: William Belsham