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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... ( ibid . 196 ) . There is a presumption against any change in the Constitution : ' when you open it to enquiry in one part , where the enquiry will stop ? ' ( ibid . 136 ) . There is little invo- cation of principle , except for the ...
... ( ibid . 196 ) . There is a presumption against any change in the Constitution : ' when you open it to enquiry in one part , where the enquiry will stop ? ' ( ibid . 136 ) . There is little invo- cation of principle , except for the ...
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... ( ibid . 341 ) This is scarcely a foreshadowing of a regular two - party system of government . Nor is there any appeal to moral principle . It is a plea to politicians to unite on the basis of shared principles , but it was not necessary ...
... ( ibid . 341 ) This is scarcely a foreshadowing of a regular two - party system of government . Nor is there any appeal to moral principle . It is a plea to politicians to unite on the basis of shared principles , but it was not necessary ...
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... ( ibid . 338 ) Sometimes a principle distilled from experience is combined with a moral principle , as in his explanation of his refusal to recommend the abolition of any offices which ' have been con- sidered as property ' : What the law ...
... ( ibid . 338 ) Sometimes a principle distilled from experience is combined with a moral principle , as in his explanation of his refusal to recommend the abolition of any offices which ' have been con- sidered as property ' : What the law ...
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The Irish adventurer | 8 |
The AngloEuropean wasp | 38 |
The bourgeois political economist | 51 |
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