| F. H. Buckley - 2003 - Страниц: 264
...as opposed to reason. As a motive to action, prejudice offers a surer guide than reason, said Burke. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...each man is small, and that the individuals would be better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages. Many of our... | |
| John S. Mackenzie - 2005 - Страниц: 493
...and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that the stock fa each man to small, and that the individuals would do better to...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages." » Sometimes, indeed, it is a highly artificial thing, brought Into being by the accidental... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto - 2005 - Страниц: 302
...substitute the natural rights of man. It is a perilous attempt to train the unlearned and the undisciplined to "live and trade each on his own private stock of reason." Its success is due to the fact that it uses these theories of natural right which chime in with selfish... | |
| Cass R. Sunstein - 2006 - Страниц: 288
...building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. .. . We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages. Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their... | |
| Edmund Burke - Страниц: 718
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...own private stock of reason; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the... | |
| Nigel Harris - 2005 - Страниц: 400
...The class of persons who owned land could define the reasonable as a class, not as individuals. For 'We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...own private stock of reason; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the... | |
| Rick Parrish - 2006 - Страниц: 176
...Edmund Burke presents a more common example in his defense of prejudice. He argues that conservatives "are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because [conservatives] suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - 2006 - Страниц: 469
...substitute the natural rights of man. It is a perilous attempt to train the unlearned and the undisciplined to "live and trade each on his own private stock of reason." Its success is due to the fact that it uses these theories of natural right which chime in with selfish... | |
| Mary Eberstadt - 2007 - Страниц: 305
...and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages. I was just then being introduced to academic social science, with its vast abstract models... | |
| Paul McLaughlin - 2007 - Страниц: 220
...writes: 'instead of casting away our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree ... We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages'.58) Tradition represents accumulated wisdom and stability; enlightenment represents individual... | |
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