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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... social and intellectual circumstances of Burke's early thought that may serve both to give a sharper outline to the concept of an “imaginative Whiggery” and to provide a biographical context for the essays that follow. Edmund Burke was ...
... social and intellectual circumstances of Burke's early thought that may serve both to give a sharper outline to the concept of an “imaginative Whiggery” and to provide a biographical context for the essays that follow. Edmund Burke was ...
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... social order was , of course , to reaffirm the religious dimension of the human condition — man's createdness — and at least to entertain the possi- bility of the occasional penetration of a divine providence into the affairs of men ...
... social order was , of course , to reaffirm the religious dimension of the human condition — man's createdness — and at least to entertain the possi- bility of the occasional penetration of a divine providence into the affairs of men ...
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... social importance of religion . “ We know , ” Burke famously stated in his Reflections , “ and it is our pride to know , that man is by his constitution a religious animal ; that atheism is against , not only our reason but our ...
... social importance of religion . “ We know , ” Burke famously stated in his Reflections , “ and it is our pride to know , that man is by his constitution a religious animal ; that atheism is against , not only our reason but our ...
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... social na- ture. They were what made man a social creature, and, by a mental process common to humanity, the forms through which these principles were medi- ated between generations carried a peculiar authority of givenness and reality ...
... social na- ture. They were what made man a social creature, and, by a mental process common to humanity, the forms through which these principles were medi- ated between generations carried a peculiar authority of givenness and reality ...
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... social harmony and liberty in the face of new encroachments from government. Nor was there felt any necessity to build an intellectual edifice of inalienable rights against which to measure and judge the performance of governors—the ...
... social harmony and liberty in the face of new encroachments from government. Nor was there felt any necessity to build an intellectual edifice of inalienable rights against which to measure and judge the performance of governors—the ...
Inhalt
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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