An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund BurkeIan Crowe University of Missouri Press, 2005 - 247 Seiten This collection of essays shifts the focus of scholarly debate away from the themes that have traditionally dominated the study of Edmund Burke. In the past, largely ideology-based or highly textual studies have tended to paint Burke as a "prophet" or "precursor" of movements as diverse as conservatism, political pragmatism, and romanticism. In contrast, these essays address prominent issues in contemporary society--multiculturalism, the impact of postmodern and relativist methodologies, the boundaries of state-church relationships, and religious tolerance in modern societies--by emphasizing Burke's earlier career and writings and focusing on his position on historiography, moral philosophy, jurisprudence, aesthetics, and philosophical skepticism. The essays in this collection, written by some of today's most renowned Burke scholars, will radically challenge our deeply rooted assumptions about Burke, his thought, and his place in the history of Western political philosophy. |
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... reason to disbelieve Burke's claim some years later that his intellectual principles were already formed by the time he entered the House of Commons. His career and education had already provided his views about human nature and society ...
... reason to disbelieve Burke's claim some years later that his intellectual principles were already formed by the time he entered the House of Commons. His career and education had already provided his views about human nature and society ...
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... reason but our instincts ; and that it cannot prevail long . ” 18 A study of Burke's earliest unpublished writings ... reason — so common sense could also be employed more comprehensively than reason alone to distill principles from ...
... reason but our instincts ; and that it cannot prevail long . ” 18 A study of Burke's earliest unpublished writings ... reason — so common sense could also be employed more comprehensively than reason alone to distill principles from ...
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... reason that, in the sense that we have sketched it above, he applied imagination to the material before him. It is this comprehensiveness, in particular, that distinguishes his history from those of many of his contemporaries. For ...
... reason that, in the sense that we have sketched it above, he applied imagination to the material before him. It is this comprehensiveness, in particular, that distinguishes his history from those of many of his contemporaries. For ...
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... reasons produced a consequent rejection of history and religion, and a politics devoid of hu- mility and deficient in humanity—“Already [1790] there appears a poverty of conception, a coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings of ...
... reasons produced a consequent rejection of history and religion, and a politics devoid of hu- mility and deficient in humanity—“Already [1790] there appears a poverty of conception, a coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings of ...
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Burke and Religion | 19 |
Burke and the Argument from Human Nature | 37 |
Burkes Conservatism | 59 |
Burke India and Orientalism | 127 |
The Law the Nun and Edmund Burke | 158 |
Burke and the Conundrum of International Human Rights | 175 |
Edmund Burke and the Thomistic Foundations of Natural | 203 |
About the Contributors | 241 |
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