Edmund Burke Flashcards

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French Revolution

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he critised as it has an unrealistic view of humans
- disregarded empiricism and desended to chaos

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Quotes

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“little platoons”
Society has to “change to conserve”
“A partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born”

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Empiricism

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knowledge and evidence comes from real experience, not abstract theories

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