 | Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui, Ricardo René Laremont - 2002 - 240 páginas
...move. Political prudence, according to Burke, requires political sensitivity to history. As he put it, "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."4 British political culture is a reflection in part of this broad political philosophy.... | |
 | Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 2003 - 284 páginas
...reflection, and above it." In his judgment, a spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but... | |
 | David Braund, Christopher Gill, Timothy Peter Wiseman - 2003 - 376 páginas
...2001: 83-97. Ancestral Virtues and Vices Cicero on Nature, Nurture and Presentation SUSAN TREGGIARI People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. (Burke, Rejections cm the Revolution in France) The Roman ruling class did both these things, often... | |
 | Alamin M. Mazrui, Alamin Mazrui, Willy Mutunga - 2004 - 484 páginas
...believe in ancestors, the proof of their anger is given another name. In the words of Edmund Burke, 'People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors'" (1986: 1 1). The message that Africa has to understand the root causes of its problems if it is to... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - 2003 - 554 páginas
...experience and memories are three things noone can take away from you. 26. Posterity - or^io 2344. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke u urrjnj) 27. Poverty - arip]«nlo 2345. Poverty is no sin. - Herbert 2346. He is not... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 2003 - 260 páginas
...that what he calls an "entailed inheritance" provides "a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires."" Burke prefers wisdom to reason because the former conserves the latter designs, and in designing wisdom,... | |
 | Domenico Losurdo - 2004 - 404 páginas
...France to the tranquil course of "nature," or that union of nature and history which is inheritance. Inheritance "furnishes a sure principle of conservation...transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement."8 It needs to be added, however, that if these are the beginnings, then as an ideological... | |
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. 
