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Burke Flashcards

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Edmund Burke

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  • Liberal member of Whig Party in Ireland
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French Revolution

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  • Starts as Paris street riots after 90 years of food shortages
  • Three Estates Assembly
  • Women’s March on Versaille
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Three Estates Assembly

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  • Nobles, clergy, and commoners meet
  • Commoners, third estate, do radical things
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French Republic

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  • Replaces the Ancienne Regime
  • Execute Louis 16, reign of terro under Robbespierre
  • Burke is writing during the era of Constitutional monarchy
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Women’s March of Versialle

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  • 1789 turning point
  • 90 years of economic hardship
  • Market women wanted access to the grain stores
  • Forced L16 back from Versaille to Paris
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British Response to the French Revolution

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  • The country was divided
  • Started very liberal support and then reign of terror pushed people to bad
  • Pamphlets, Brit lib is peaceful, Fr is violent
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Separation of Church and State

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  • Happened in Fr
  • Brits are Anglican and that morality left Fr
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Thomas Payne

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  • UK born and moves to US
  • Anti-monarchy, so people assume he’s American
  • 1791 published the Rights of Man
  • Almost gets arrested in UK, escapes to Fr
  • Burke responds to him
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Burke’s Turn

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  • He flips when he’s 60 as the Fr Rev happens
  • Says its too much of a radical shift from the past
  • There is no proof their ideas will work
  • Father of modern conservativism
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Burke’s Political Theory

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  • Can’t understand selves in sbstract sense
  • We can’t just reson our way to rights
  • Tension
  • Governing states
  • Human nature
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Burke Tension

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  • Virtues cultivated through success over time
  • Morality that we can know and should guide action
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Governing States

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  • The world is opaque and we have to see what works over time
  • Humans are prone to unrest, so if anything sticks it must be good
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Enlightenment State Governance

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  • Can use reason and observation to determine political organization
  • Burke disagrees
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Human Nature

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  • We only learn through what hasn’t failed
  • Can’t just reason our way to answers
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Glorious Revolution, 1688

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  • Not the same as Fr Rev cause chaos
  • Idea that it validates self-gov is misled
  • Set a precedent for using abstract ideas of liberty to justify change
  • Revolutions should respect traditions - - Conservative shift that preserved order
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Individual Rights

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  • Dismisses them because they are untested
  • Should be contextually revealed through time and history
  • Morality allow dignity and justice
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Liberty

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  • Need tradition to allow freedom from within our societal roles
  • What is gained from equality when we are different
  • Need things to uphold soc or world is an aimless free for all
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Three Rights

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  1. Choose own government
  2. Fire them for misconduct
  3. Give rights to future generations
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Things that Uphold Society and Individual Flourishing

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  • Institutions such as social roles
  • Property
  • Respect for authority
  • Only abstract rights exist without these
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Critique of Liberty

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  • Individual is different than bodies/collectives
  • Collectives make it political power
  • Individual has it if people make good choices
  • Don’t know what collective looks like in practice
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Gender Roles

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  • Wants clear social boundaries and believes gender roles are necessary for this
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Social Contract Critique

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  • Soc Con presumes an abstract moment founds political tradition
  • Law is not subject to will of the people
  • Contract needs to be between living, dead, and yet to be born
  • Reverses tacit consent
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Abstract Moment

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  • We did not rationally choose our roles
  • We are here because our system worked
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Living, Dead, and Yet to be Born

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  • Done through continuity so below does not happen
  • People often lose sight of time horizons and make bad choices
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Tacit Consent

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  • Who do we think we are to upend what has existed and will continue
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Critics Ask How Is Social Change Possible

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  • Burke says that there are different ways to change society without revolutionary zealotry like Fr Rev
  • Has been done historically
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State Authority

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  • Comes from ancient opinions of ruls and life
  • E.g. morality, spirit of religion, etc.

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