1. Edmund Burke - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 1 – July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

Edmund Burke From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For other individuals named Edmund Burke see Edmund Burke (disambiguation) Western Philosophy 18th century philosophy Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke Name Edmund Burke Birth January 12 Dublin Ireland Death July 9 Beaconsfield England School/tradition Whiggery conservatism Main interests Social and political philosophy Influenced by Richard Hooker Influenced Lord Acton Friedrich Hayek Karl Popper Roger Scruton Edmund Burke January 12 July 9 ) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist , and philosopher , who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution . The latter made Burke one of the leading figures within the conservative faction of the Whig party (which he dubbed the "Old Whigs"), in opposition to the pro-revolutionary "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox . Burke also published philosophical works on aesthetics and founded the Annual Register , a political review. He is often regarded by conservatives as the Father of Anglo-American conservatism.

2. Edmund Burke Edmund Burke s Legacy A tribute on the 200th Anniversary of his Death. http://www.bigeye.com/burke1.htm

Edmund Burke's Legacy By Andrew Webster A Tribute on the 200th Anniversary of his Death ON 9th JULY 1797 the statesman and the philosopher Edmund Burke died, after having contracted stomach cancer. He was buried in Beaconsfield Church near his Buckinghamshire home. Burke had been a distinguished Member of Parliament but never attained high office. His political career must be judged a failure. However, Edmund Burke's true legacy was contained in his extensive writings. In letters,pamphlets and books he expounded a coherent system of ideas about human nature;the organic state; the benefits of prejudice;the dangers of government by secret consensus and the role of political parties. Two hundred years on, most scholars would agree that Burke had a gift for deep analysis conveyed in stylish English prose.Yet the content of his work though remains controversial. Supporters included the poet William Wordsworth, who called Burke: " the most sagacious politician of his age" . Karl Marx, on the other hand, complained in Das Kapital that Burke was a bourgeois stooge of the English ruling class. Marxists took particular offence at Burke's critique of egalitarianism, perhaps realising the radical threat which this presented to their own vision of a future society.

3. Edmund Burke --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Edmund Burke British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker prominent in public life from 1765 to http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9018168/Edmund-Burke

var britAdCategory = "history"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Early life. Political life. Burke's thought and influence. Additional Reading ... Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Robert Dodsley Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. Edmund Burke Page 1 of 4 born January 12?, [January 1, Old Style], 1729, Dublin, Ire. died July 9, 1797, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker prominent in public life from 1765 to about 1795 and important in the history of political theory. He championed conservatism in opposition to Jacobinism in Reflections on the Revolution in France Burke, Edmund...

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Edmund Burke From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke ) was an Irish political philosopher, Whig politician, and statesman; he is regarded by many as the "father" of modern conservatism. Contents Sourced A Vindication of Natural Society: A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind (1756) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) ... edit Sourced There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs. An account of the European Settlements in America (1757), pp. 19-20, in The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes , Vol. IX. Boston: Little, Brown, 1839. Laws, like houses, lean on one another. From the Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland (c. 1766), not published during Burke's lifetime.

5. Edmund Burke Edmund Burke, 17291797. Portrait of Burke. Irish social and political philosopher and statesman. Although reared in the Enlightenment era, Burke was a http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/burke.htm

Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 Irish social and political philosopher and statesman. Although reared in the Enlightenment era, Burke was a severe critic of rationalist theories of " natural law " and social contract. Like David Hume , Burke believed that political and social organization evolved organically over history from a variety of political, cultural and social circumstances. In Burke's view, current society is a robust organism that emerged piecemeal and slowly over history. For this reason, Burke never trusted abstract "grand plans" for radical political, economic and/or social reorganization of society. This has led him to be celebrated as the father of Conservatism. However, Burke wasn't exactly an apologist of the current order either. Tyrannical kings and parliaments, no less than tyrannical mobs, were an anathema to Burke. It is for this reason that he defended the American Revolution (since, in his view, they were merely "reclaiming" their traditional rights as freeborn Englishmen) and condemned the French Revolution (which, in his view, was based on a rationalist experiment). Burke was trained as a lawyer at Trinity College, Dublin and thereafter moved to London. In 1759, he became a private secretary to William Hamilton and then, in 1765, to Charles Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham, the Whig prime minister. Burke was himself elected to the House of Commons in 1765. After the fall of the Whigs in 1766, Burke sat in opposition to the Tories in parliament.

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7. Edmund Burke Edmund Burke. Edmund Burke, 17291797, Irish writer and statesman. Burke s first important work, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/People/burke.html

Edmund Burke Edmund Burke, , Irish writer and statesman. Burke's first important work, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ), was a milestone in the history of the vogue for the sublime and the Gothic . Burke entered Parliament in 1765 as a supporter of Rockingham and the Whig party, which he supported in his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ). He favored a moderate course of Parliamentary reform, encouraging greater independence of the Commons, but was unwilling to go as far as some reformers in reducing the rights of the Church of England. Although Burke defended the rights of the American colonists in the middle 1770s, he was a virulent opponent of the French Revolution, as he argues in his Reflections on the Revolution in France ). He played a leading part in the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings, whose draconian policies toward the natives in India disgusted Burke. Wollstonecraft refers to his Reflections on the Revolution in France Contexts: The Gothic Politics The Sublime

8. Edmond Burke Edmund Burke, born in Dublin in 1729, was the son of an attorney, Richard Burke. He graduated Dublin s Trinity College and set out to study law in London in http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/burke.htm

Back To Index Document Signers Related Information ... Guestbook Search ushistory.org Related Information Index of Related Information Edmond Burke John Dickinson George III Patrick Henry John Jay Robert Livingston William G. Livingston Robert Carter Nicholas Lord North Edmund Pendleton Peyton Randolph -Events and Things Congress Raleigh Tavern Prime Ministry of Lord North Gaspee Affair Sons of Liberty Committees of Correspondence Non-importation Agreements Boston Massacre Vice-Admiralty Courts Albany Convention A Tax Stamp Instructions for the Deputies First Virginia Constitution Virginia Declaration of Rights -Laws and Resolutions- Boston Non-importation Agreement Tea Act Sugar Act Currency Act Proclamation of 1763 Stamp Act Quartering Act of 1765 Declaratory Act Townshend Act Intolerable Acts Boston Port Act Administration of Justice Act Massachusetts Government Act Quartering Act of 1774 Quebec Act Declaration and Resolves John Dickinson Edmond Burke Member of Parliament (Britain) Born: January 12, 1729 Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Education: Trinity College, Dublin

9. Edmund Burke - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Translate this page Biografía del escritor, esteta y pensador político liberal nacido en Irlanda. Con enlaces a términos relevantes. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

Edmund Burke De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Edmund Burke Dubl­n 12 de enero Beaconsfield 9 de julio ), escritor, esteta y pensador pol­tico brit¡nico liberal conservador Tabla de contenidos Formaci³n Primeras obras Activismo pol­tico Reflexiones sobre la Revoluci³n Francesa ... editar Formaci³n Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Hijo de padre protestante y madre cat³lica, fue educado desde 1743 en el Trinity College de Dubl­n. Serio, estudioso y ambicioso, como atestiguan las cartas a su primer maestro, Shaket , conoc­a a los autores griegos y latinos y se interesaba ya en pol­tica, filosof­a, ©tica y est©tica. Se gradu³ en 1748 y dos a±os despu©s se dirigi³ a Londres para cursar leyes, sin abandonar por ello los estudios literarios. editar Primeras obras En 1756 escribi³ Indagaci³n filos³fica sobre el origen de nuestras ideas acerca de lo sublime y de lo bello , donde esboza unas teor­as est©ticas claramente Neocl¡sicas (el de la teor­a rom¡ntica es posterior y la hace Kant). El objeto sublime lo edifica en torno a la est©tica del terror y guarda un relaci³n directa con el poder, a la manera absolutista de su tiempo. Asimismo plantea el ejercicio est©tico de lo sublime necesario para ejercitar las emociones de la ataraxia propia de la condici³n de vida de la burgues­a. Al a±o siguiente hizo imprimir las primeras partes de

10. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Edmund Burke Edmund Burke. First Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia, b. in the parish of Maryborough, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1753; d. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1820. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03079c.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... B > Edmund Burke Edmund Burke First Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia , b. in the parish of Maryborough, County Kildare Ireland , in 1753; d. at Halifax Nova Scotia , 1820. He was compelled by existing political conditions in Ireland to pursue his studies in Paris , where his talents and character gave promise of his future career. Ordained priest , he returned to his native diocese . Here trouble had just arisen over the appointment of a vicar-general , and Father Burke was blamed by some partisans for espousing the cause of his superior. The unpleasant conditions led young Burke to follow the advice of Dr. Carpenter, Archbishop of Dublin , and go to Canada . He arrived in Quebec in the summer of 1786, and in September of that year was made professor of philosophy and mathematics in the seminary of Quebec. His work in the seminary led to his appointment as a director of that institution, but he craved for missionary work north and west of the Great Lakes, where, in scattered villages, there were many Catholics who had not seen a missionary since the conquest (1759). In 1794 he gained his object and was sent into the missionary field with the title of

11. Edmund Burke - LoveToKnow 1911 EDMUND BURKE (1729 1 797), British statesman and political writer. His is one of the greatest names in the history of political literature. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Edmund_Burke

Edmund Burke From LoveToKnow 1911 EDMUND BURKE - 1 797), British statesman and political writer. His is one of the greatest names in the history of political literature. There have been many more important statesmen, for he was never tried in a position of supreme responsibility. There have been many more effective orators, for lack of imaginative suppleness prevented him from penetrating to the inner mind of his hearers; defects in delivery weakened the intrinsic persuasiveness of his reasoning; and he had not that commanding authority of character and personality which has so often been the secret of triumphant eloquence. There have been many subtler, more original and more systematic thinkers about the conditions of the social union. But no one that ever lived used the general ideas of the thinker more successfully to judge the particular problems of the statesman. No one has ever come so close to the details of practical politics, and at the same time remembered that these can only be understood and only dealt with by the aid of the broad conceptions of political philosophy . And what is more than all for perpetuity of fame, he was one of the great masters of the high and difficult art of elaborate composition.

12. Edmund Burke - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 July 9, 1797) was an important Irish politician, and writer. Many people consider Burke to be one of the founders of http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

Edmund Burke From Simple English Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can change Jump to: navigation search Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke Edmund Burke January 12 July 9 ) was an important Irish politician , and writer . Many people consider Burke to be one of the founders of conservatism . He became a member of the British House of Commons in , and was known for his support for the American Revolution and his attacks against the French Revolution . His most famous book was Reflections on the Revolution in France , which created many of the ideas in conservatism. Some of his other writings include the book A Vindication of Natural Society: A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind and the treatise on beauty A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . He was also one of the founders of the Annual Register , a review of politics which was published every year and had information on the history of the last year. change Other websites Works by Edmund Burke at Project Gutenberg (including his collected works in 12 volumes) This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by

13. Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 The British statesman and philosopher, edmund burke, was born in Dublin, January 12, educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College, Dublin. http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/burke.html

Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 Edmund Burke, was born in Dublin, January 12, educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1750 he entered the Middle Temple, London, but soon abandoned law for literary work. His Vindication of Natural Society , was published in 1756, as was also his Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . From 1761 to 1783 he was back in Dublin as private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham, at that time premier, and entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Wendover. His eloquence once gained him a high position in the Whig party. Rockingham's administration lasted only one year. Although Burke held no public office until the downfall of the North ministry in 1782, Burke's public activity never ceased. Lord North's long administration (1770-1782) was marked by the unsuccessful coercion of the American colonies, by corruption, extravagance, and reaction. Against this policy Burke and his Whig friends could only raise a strong protest. The best of Burke's writings and speeches belong to this period, and may be described as a defense of sound constitutional statesmanship against prevailing abuse and misgovernment.

14. Edmund Burke (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) edmund burke, author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, is known to a wide public as a classic political thinker it is less well understood that http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/burke/

Cite this entry Search the SEP Advanced Search Tools ... Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free Edmund Burke First published Mon 23 Feb, 2004 Edmund Burke, author of Reflections on the Revolution in France , is known to a wide public as a classic political thinker: it is less well understood that his intellectual achievement depended upon his understanding of philosophy. The present essay explores the character and significance of this for his thought. 1. Introduction 2. Life 3. Intellectual Orientation 4. Philosophical and Historical Writings ... Other Internet Resources 1. Introduction The name of Edmund Burke (1730-97) is not one that often figures in the history of philosophy . This is a curious fate for a writer of genius who was also the author of a book entitled A Philosophical Enquiry . Besides the Enquiry 2. Life Indeed, like Hume, Burke found that there was more money in narrative works and in practical affairs than in philosophy. Burke's earliest writings include A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), and

15. Biographies: The Political Philosopher, Edmund Burke (1729-97). burke was an Irish born English Statesman and author, sympathetic towards American colonies and Irish Catholics, and (because of the resulting violence and http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Burke.htm

Edmund Burke STUCK IN A FRAME CLICK HERE The cords of man: "Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations." ("Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies," 1775.) Lawyer/Writer/Politician:- Quotes. Dates. Notes. ... [TOC] Lawyer/Writer/Politician:- Burke was the son of a Dublin attorney. In 1750, he entered the Middle Temple, London, but Burke soon abandoned law for literary work. In 1756 he published, anonymously, A Vindication of Natural Society . In 1765 he became the private secretary to Marquis of Rockingham, who at that time, but only for a year thereafter, was premier. Burke soon entered parliament, as a Whig, through a pocket borough, Wendover. During most of his years as a parliamentarian, Burke was to sit in the opposition benches as a critic to the ruling Tories. These were times of great historical importance, marked by the unsuccessful coercion of the American colonies. The event, which was to unfold over a number of years, was, accompanied by corruption, extravagance, and reaction. Against this, Burke and his Whig friends could only raise a strong protest. "The best of Burke's writings and speeches belong to this period, and may be described as a defence of sound constitutional statesmanship against prevailing abuse and misgovernment." After the British colonies were lost, still yet in opposition, Burke turned his great talents in the support of the Irish cause

16. Edmund Burke Quotes - The Quotations Page edmund burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and edmund burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Edmund_Burke/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 12 of 12 total All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke - More quotations on: [ Evil Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. Edmund Burke - More quotations on: [ Security He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. Edmund Burke I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. Edmund Burke It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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18. BBC - History - Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) burke was a hugely influential AngloIrish politician, orator and political thinker, notable for his strong support for the American Revolution and his http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/burke_edmund.shtml

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19. Edmund Burke's Home Page Prof edmund burke School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus Nottingham NG8 2BB UK. Email ekb at cs.nott.ac.uk http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ekb/

Edmund Burke's Home Page Prof Edmund Burke School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus Nottingham UK Email: ekb at cs.nott.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)115 951 4206 Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4249 Room C72 Current Position: I am a Professor of Computer Science and Head of the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham My main research interest lies at the interface of Operational Research and Computer Science. In particular, I am exploring search methodologies and the role that they play in underpinning intelligent decision support systems across a wide variety of applications. This includes automated scheduling and timetabling, cutting and packing, personnel rostering, evolutionary computation and meta-heuristics, hyper-heuristics, operational research, artificial intelligence, combinatorial optimisation and bioinformatics. I lead the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning research group here at Nottingham. Academic Activities: Professional Duties Chairing International Conferences Other Programme Committee Memberships Selected Publications and Current Research Awards: Current Externally Funded Research Grants Recently Completed Externally Funded Research Grants Journal Editorships Books (Editor/Author) ... ASAP Group Publications Research Supervision: Current Research Assistants: Jason Atkin Camille Beyrouthy Yuri Bykov Timothy Curtois ... John Woodward Current PhD Students: Syariza Abdul Rahman Sam Allen Joseph Baxter Aniza Mohamed Din ... Atle Riise (external co-supervison at the University of Oslo)

20. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Documents: Burke Speech USAproject, documents-area, edmund burke, Speech on conciliation with America, edmund burke. To restore order and repose to an empire so great and so http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/libertydebate/burk.htm

FRtR Documents Burke speech Edmund Burke Speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775 Quote Edmund Burke To restore order and repose to an empire so great and so distracted as ours is, merely in the attempt, an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius, and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest understanding. Struggling a good while with these thoughts, by degrees I felt myself more firm. I derived, at length, some confidence from what in other circumstances usually produces timidity. I grew less anxious, even from the idea of my own insignificance. For, judging of what you are by what you ought to be, I persuaded myself that you would not reject a reasonable proposition because it had nothing but its reason to recommend it. The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. Is it not the same virtue which does every thing for us here in England? Do you imagine, then, that-it is the Land-Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply, which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely, no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

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