BurkeHill and Wang, 1980 - 83 páginas In this concise yet powerful book, one of the twentieth century's most respected political philosophers presents a controversial reassessment of the political ideas and intellectual legacy of Edmund Burke. A practicing politician and powerful writer, full of ideas, Burke was intent on getting those ideas translated into government policies. But he was too much the impatient practitioner to set out his principles in a single book in the manner of Locke or Hume, leaving both admirers and opponents ample scope to reinterpret his work in different ways. Macpherson, however, finds Burke's views on political economy to be the one consistent factor in his thinking. Today Burke is often viewed as one of modern conservatism's founding lights, and in an era of global capitalism unfettered by national borders, Macpherson's reassessment of Burke's ideas is perhaps more timely than ever. -- Amazon.com. |
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... House of Commons , in 1766 , before he could have won one on his own reputation , so accommodating was the system of rotten boroughs , where a single peer , in this case Lord Verney , controlled the elections ( in Wendover ) . Burke was ...
... House of Commons , in 1766 , before he could have won one on his own reputation , so accommodating was the system of rotten boroughs , where a single peer , in this case Lord Verney , controlled the elections ( in Wendover ) . Burke was ...
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... House of Commons and in pamphlets and books and speeches outside the House , compelled his opponents to move to that higher ground . Nineteenth- and twentieth - cen- tury liberals , who were apt to think that the liberalism of their own ...
... House of Commons and in pamphlets and books and speeches outside the House , compelled his opponents to move to that higher ground . Nineteenth- and twentieth - cen- tury liberals , who were apt to think that the liberalism of their own ...
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... Parliament to impotence . The essential and traditional role of the House of Commons , to check the Crown and the administration by re- fusing to vote the funds they wanted , had , he argued , been undermined by a subtle take - over ...
... Parliament to impotence . The essential and traditional role of the House of Commons , to check the Crown and the administration by re- fusing to vote the funds they wanted , had , he argued , been undermined by a subtle take - over ...
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The Irish adventurer | 8 |
The AngloEuropean wasp | 38 |
The bourgeois political economist | 51 |
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