POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hubris, Edmund Burke, Michael Oakeshott
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The conservative seeks to revive, restore, and reconstruct to use the gifts of the dead to make the present a little sweeter and deeper david brooks, the. Edmund burke (1729-1797: background, irish-british statesman, father of conservatism , articulated key aspects of conservatism in his anti-revolutionary reflections on the french revolution, the french revolutionaries had proclaimed certain abstract rights of man ( declaration of the. Rights of man and citizen : break with french tradition, french revolutionaries saw this as oppressive; unfair, unequal, burke"s reflections on the revolution in france (1789, 6 key points: Ordered or rational freedom, rather than absolute or unrestrained freedom. Not too far off from locke"s natural rights; do what you want to do, as long as it doesn"t harm others. Need for society sometimes to thwart the inclinations of individuals (179) Changes to society that maintain continuity with what came before. He"s not reactionary not opposed to all change.
