It includes some good moral and religious sentiments, not badly expressed, mixed up in a sort of porridge of various political opinions and reflections; but the main ingredient in the cauldron is the Revolution in France.
Reflections on the Revolution in France[a] is a political pamphlet written by the British statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790. It is fundamentally a contrast of the French Revolution to that time with the unwritten British Constitution and, to a significant degree, an argument with British supporters and interpreters of the events in France. One of the best-known intellectual ...
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to...
Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in ...
Other articles where Reflections on the Revolution in France is discussed: Edmund Burke: Political life: …was provoked into writing his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by a sermon of the Protestant dissenter Richard Price welcoming the Revolution. Burke’s deeply felt antagonism to the new movement propelled him to the plane of general political thought; it provoked a host of ...
The most enduring work of its time,Reflections on the Revolution in Francewas written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis...
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a foundational text of modern conservative political thought and a classic in the history of political philosophy. It articulated a systematic critique of revolutionary rationalism, popular sovereignty, and abstract rights, placing at the center of political theory the ideas of tradition, prescription, prejudice (in a positive sense), and gradual ...