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Oct 17, 2023 · Edmund Burke, by James Northcote (based on original by Joshua Reynolds), 1770s, via Artuk.org In order to gain an understanding of how and why the French Revolution led to a British pamphlet war, we need to put Edmund Burke’s life in context. Burke was born in 1729 in Ireland as the son of a prominent family.
Conservatism - Traditionalism, Hierarchy, Authority: Although conservatives sometimes claim philosophers as ancient as Aristotle and Cicero as their forebears, the first explicitly conservative political theorist is generally considered to be Edmund Burke. In 1790, when the French Revolution still seemed to promise a bloodless utopia, Burke predicted in his Reflections on the Revolution in ...
In conservatism. political writer Edmund Burke, whose Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) was a forceful expression of conservatives’ rejection of the French Revolution and a major inspiration for counterrevolutionary theorists in the 19th century. For Burke and other pro-parliamentarian conservatives, the violent, untraditional ...
Title page from Burke’s Reflections, 1790 Edmund Burke (1729-97) was an influential Anglo-Irish member of parliament and political thinker who fiercely opposed the French Revolution. Burke believed that the French people had thrown off ‘the yoke of laws and morals’ and he was alarmed at the generally favourable reaction of the English ...
埃德蒙·伯克 （英語： Edmund Burke ，1729年1月12日—1797年7月9日 [1] ）， 愛爾蘭 裔的 英國 的政治家、作家、演說家、政治理論家和 哲學家 ，他曾在 英國下議院 擔任了數年 輝格黨 的議員。. 他最為後人所知的事蹟包括了他反對英王 喬治三世 和英國政府、支持 ...
Feb 23, 2004 · Edmund Burke, author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, is known to a wide public as a classic political thinker: it is less well understood that his intellectual achievement depended upon his understanding of philosophy and use of it in the practical writings and speeches by which he is chiefly known. The present essay explores the ...
Edmund Burke (født 12. januar 1729, død 9. juli 1797) var en engelsk-irsk konservativ politiker, forfatter, taler og politisk filosof, mangeårigt medlem af det britiske underhus for Whig-partiet. Han huskes især for sin støtte til de amerikanske koloniers uafhængighedskamp mod kong George 3. af Storbritannien , som førte til den ...
