Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2
Burke’s classic criticism of the French Revolution. It provoked many replies and Burke returned to the issue again and again.
Select Works of Edmund Burke. A New Imprint of the Payne Edition. Foreword and Biographical Note by Francis Canavan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999). Vol. 2.
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- Foreword: Francis Canavan
- Author: Edmund Burke
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Editor’s Foreword
- the radical democratic ideology
- burke’s reaction to the french revolution
- burke’s constitutional theory
- the principle of inheritance
- the true rights of man
- the goals of civil society
- the right to govern
- burke’s view of democracy
- authority and the order of creation
- the moral order of creation
- the social contract
- when revolution is justified
- basic premises of burke’s thought
- Editor’s Note
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Notes
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