The Philosophy of Edmund Burke

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"Edmund Burke was born in the eighteenth century. He was a statesman and a political thinker. His views on government have been cited by conservative thinkers. For Burke, government should ideally be a cooperative, mutually restraining relation of rulers to subjects, with an attachment to tradition and the ways of the past to the degree possible but also with a recognition of the fact of change and the need for a comprehensive and discriminating response to it. Burke fought against the Revolution in France and demanded war against the new state. He believed that the French Revolution had brought about a devaluation in tradition. He saw strength in the English constitution, which offered continuity and unorganized growth as well as a respect for traditional wisdom. He suggested an interpretation of nature and the natural order and thus implied a ... "

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