Burke's Politics: A Study in Whig OrthodoxyWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1979 - Всего страниц: 93 Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examining concepts such as natural laws, natural society, civil society, and history in Burke’s speeches and writings, the author comes to some conclusions about Burke’s political theory and its relation to commonly accepted eighteenth-century political doctrines. Succinct and balanced, this study will be of particular interest to political theorists and historians. |
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... ment of the collective opinion of his party . Before publication the manuscript was sent to his friends for correction and endorsement ; after publication , Burke spoke of the pamphlet as a statement of his party's creed.15 In this ...
... ment of the collective opinion of his party . Before publication the manuscript was sent to his friends for correction and endorsement ; after publication , Burke spoke of the pamphlet as a statement of his party's creed.15 In this ...
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... ment , however , is not confirmed by a close reading of Burke's speeches on the question . His case for Wilkes was stated entirely in jurisdictional terms . He made no crucial reference to natural law , nor did any of his arguments ...
... ment , however , is not confirmed by a close reading of Burke's speeches on the question . His case for Wilkes was stated entirely in jurisdictional terms . He made no crucial reference to natural law , nor did any of his arguments ...
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... ment ; this power could not be usurped by any one of them acting by itself . As far as it went the substance of Burke's argument was perfectly compatible with Hobbesian principles of government . This is not to suggest that Burke was a ...
... ment ; this power could not be usurped by any one of them acting by itself . As far as it went the substance of Burke's argument was perfectly compatible with Hobbesian principles of government . This is not to suggest that Burke was a ...
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... ment as a matter for its prudence . I do not put the thing on a question of right . That discretion , which in judicature is well said by Lord Coke to be a crooked cord , in legislature is a golden rule . " 20 There is no need , however ...
... ment as a matter for its prudence . I do not put the thing on a question of right . That discretion , which in judicature is well said by Lord Coke to be a crooked cord , in legislature is a golden rule . " 20 There is no need , however ...
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... ment speeches , as in the Popery Laws , Burke laid deliberate emphasis on natural justice . Surveying the general case against Hastings , he denied that actions which were crimes in Europe were not necessarily crimes in the Orient . Men ...
... ment speeches , as in the Popery Laws , Burke laid deliberate emphasis on natural justice . Surveying the general case against Hastings , he denied that actions which were crimes in Europe were not necessarily crimes in the Orient . Men ...
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Three Natural Society | 24 |
Four Civil Society | 37 |
Five History | 54 |
Six Conclusion | 68 |
Appendix | 85 |
Bibliography | 90 |
Index | 92 |
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Стр. 32 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags, and paltry, blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man. We preserve the whole of our feelings still native and entire, unsophisticated by pedantry and infidelity. We have real hearts of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms. We fear God; we look up with awe to kings; with affection to parliaments; with duty to magistrates; with reverence to priests; and with respect to nobility.
Стр. 35 - In a state of rude Nature there is no such thing as a people. A number of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial, and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement.
Стр. 88 - It seems to me a preposterous way of reasoning, and a perfect confusion of ideas, to take the theories which learned and speculative men have made from that government, and then supposing it made on those theories which were made from it, to accuse the government as not corresponding with them.
Стр. 18 - But my consideration is narrow, confined, and wholly limited to the policy of the question. I do not examine whether the giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of government, and how far all mankind, in all forms of polity, are entitled to an exercise of that right by the charter of nature; or whether, on the contrary, a right of taxation is necessarily involved iu the general principle of legislation, and inseparable from the ordinary supreme power. These...
Стр. 27 - Dark and inscrutable are the ways by which we come into the world. The instincts which give rise to this mysterious process of nature are not of our making. But out of physical causes, unknown to us, perhaps unknowable, arise moral duties, which, as we are able perfectly to comprehend, we are bound indispensably to perform.
Стр. 44 - Company have not arbitrary power to give him ; the king has no arbitrary power to give him ; your lordships have not ; nor the commons, nor the whole legislature. We have no arbitrary power to give, because arbitrary power is a thing which neither any man can hold nor any man can give.
Стр. 50 - GOD, having made man such a creature that, in His own judgment, it was not good for him to be alone, put him under strong obligations of necessity, convenience, and inclination, to drive him into society, as well as fitted him with understanding and language to continue and enjoy it...
Стр. 50 - God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Стр. 35 - ... the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement. What the particular nature of that agreement was, is collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original compact or agreement which gives its corporate form and capacity to a state...
Стр. 48 - ... the law is broken, nature is disobeyed, and the rebellious are outlawed, cast forth, and exiled, from this world of reason, and order, and peace, and virtue, and fruitful penitence, into the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.