Edmund Burke Flashcards
Edmund Burke’s most famous work is titled what and was published when?
Reflections on the revolution in France and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event (1790)
Burke’s most famous work was a…?
passionate criticism that cautioned against radical change that the revolution was aiming for
Burke believed that all members of civil society…?
have a duty to constitutional fidelity in a divinely ordered world
Burke’s political ideology proposed a respect for?
history and tradition
Modern conservatism came about largely as a reaction to?
French revolution
What was happening in the french revolution that created conservative thought?
long standing traditions were violently being overturned, and conservatives saw the need for protecting those traditions if stability and civility were to be maintained
Burke argued that making change for the sake of change, or even for the sake of progress the results…?
would be worse than the protested wrongs
Burke believed that institutions…?
grew out of the customs and history of a civilization and you could not destroy and erect new ones in a vacuum
Burke disagreed with abstract speculation and instead preferred what?
philosophy in action
Burke’s principles of his school of thought emerge in response to?
various events and so must be considered along with their circumstance
To discuss circumstance without principles is to
divorce politics from it’s moral base
Burke viewed the aristocracy as ?
the rank in society that gives it direction and protection. They use their strength, intelligence and wealth for the good of the community
For Burke when the masses express their discontent with their rulers it is not from passion for attack but..?
from an impatience of suffering
For Burke established institutions and political arrangements…/
have grown over time to where they exist now and as a result have a presumptive right to exist
The role of politics in conservatism is?
preservative
