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An Analysis of Edmund Burke's - Reflections on the Revolution in France (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Edmund Burke's - Reflections on the Revolution in France (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Edmund Burke's 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France is a
strong example of how the thinking skills of analysis and reasoning
can support even the most rhetorical of arguments. Often cited as
the foundational work of modern conservative political thought,
Burke's Reflections is a sustained argument against the French
Revolution. Though Burke is in many ways not interested in rational
close analysis of the arguments in favour of the revolution, he
points out a crucial flaw in revolutionary thought, upon which he
builds his argument. For Burke, that flaw was the sheer threat that
revolution poses to life, property and society. Sceptical about the
utopian urge to utterly reconstruct society in line with rational
principles, Burke argued strongly for conservative progress: a
continual slow refinement of government and political theory, which
could move forward without completely overturning the old
structures of state and society. Old state institutions, he
reasoned, might not be perfect, but they work well enough to keep
things ticking along. Any change made to improve them, therefore,
should be slow, not revolutionary. While Burke's arguments are
deliberately not reasoned in the 'rational' style of those who
supported the revolution, they show persuasive reasoning at its
very best.
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