Burke has a great image in his book of the French vs the English garden, the French having the trees cut into unnatural geometric shapes and the English growing natural but well-tended
"guided by reflection on past experiences and tradition than by appeal to abstract metaphysical principals", translated to today wisdom vs post-modernism. We need this kind of classical education now more than ever.
You have the clearest voice, calm and relaxed demeanor and amazing accent! I could listen to you read the telephone book. Thank you for this informative and well prepared talk.
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays you instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
Interestingly enough, Edmund Burke, while opposing the French Revolution, was one of the staunchest supporters in Parliament of the American Revolution. So why this apparent contradiction? Simply because of this: he realized that the French Revolution would eventually culminate in tyranny, because it was founded upon pure democracy, whereas in the case of the American Revolution, he foresaw no such consequence, as it tended more towards the republican system of government.
@@ejmiller1925 yeah the American revolution only allowed rich land owning white men to vote. It’s also hard to say how the French Revolution would’ve gone had not the entirety of Europe immediately declared war on France.
Not evolution, after the modern synthesis of 1959, three legs; genetics, epigenetics, teleonomics, so I prefer the concept of social development. I believe that matches your description of Burke's project quite well and ...
ideals must always be more than an individual, so that all may strive for it. It is these local maxima which drive desires for perfection in this life - as oppose to that of ones kin - often distracting the populous by short sighted empty hedonistic wishes
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I think Burke was very wrong in a lot of ways about what men and women could and could not decide for themselves were right. Respect for authority? Why does the aristocracy have the right to command the respect they think they deserve? Why does the common person need to heed these commands? Who decided who is aristocrat and who is not? How can a person have liberty when he is asked to respect a person he doesn't respect? What sort of freedom is this? Questions like these have either not been answered or have very unsatisfactory answers. I believe a system of government we have today in most of the Western world still asks for the respect of the people (think churches and the government), but it won't violate the liberty of a person should he decide to oppose the government. Every person is equal in value and has the same voice (which is why celebrities and rich folk are bad for our society). That is liberty, that is freedom. The way Burke sees it, we are oppressed forever.
Not at all! If that is what you got from this video, I encourage you to find other sources on Burke. Hobbes believed that absolutism was necessary. Burke firmly rejected absolutism. He believed that tradition should be respected, and change should be gradual, but he is a far cry from Hobbes.
An aristocrat who benefited from social hierarchy and property rights and spent his cushy life as a high statesman in an parliamentary monarchy, advocates for parliamentary monarchy, social hierarchy, and property rights. He also took some time away from his daybed and grapes to write about how the French are going about revolution the wrong way.
Are you trying to suggest that because 'A' benefits from 'B' things, anything 'A' writes about 'B' is automatically rendered incoherent or untrustworthy? If so, just say it. Because taking arguments on their merit is so old-fashioned and redundant. *yawn* Another infantile comment from someone who probably just got done reading the communist manifesto or capital, feeling the need to highlight how ostensibly clever they are, yet failing terribly. I have to applaud the air of authority imbued in your comment though.
@@CuteEplet when you join a cult, you are being open-minded but unreasonable. when you decline to join a cult, you are being close-minded and reasonable
