Reflections on the Revolution in FranceBurke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric. |
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Merely to pose the question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counterrevolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in considering the relevance of Burke to the ...
Merely to pose the question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counterrevolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in considering the relevance of Burke to the ...
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... Question from the Men who are concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, in Politicks the first of Virtues).
... Question from the Men who are concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, in Politicks the first of Virtues).
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Burke's letters of the second half of 1789 – quoted above – show that his attitude towards the French Revolution was disapproving from the very beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand.
Burke's letters of the second half of 1789 – quoted above – show that his attitude towards the French Revolution was disapproving from the very beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand.
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A question of this type, whether it concerns the living or the dead, cannot be answered with certainty. I should like to offer here a conjectural answer which seems to me to be in full accord with what we know of Burke's life and ...
A question of this type, whether it concerns the living or the dead, cannot be answered with certainty. I should like to offer here a conjectural answer which seems to me to be in full accord with what we know of Burke's life and ...
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That it was only a part of his intention is obvious: his detestation of Jacobinism is real and even obsessive; there is no question of its being feigned for an ulterior motive. Yet his anti-Jacobinism cannot be separated from his sense ...
That it was only a part of his intention is obvious: his detestation of Jacobinism is real and even obsessive; there is no question of its being feigned for an ulterior motive. Yet his anti-Jacobinism cannot be separated from his sense ...
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| Título | Reflections on the Revolution in France Penguin English library |
| Autor | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Conor O'Brien |
| Editor | Penguin UK, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0141907886, 9780141907888 |
| Largo | 416 páginas |
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