![]() ![]() Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. ![]() Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. By having a right to everything they want everything. ![]() Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it, and exist in much greater clearness and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. Although Burke supported ideas and institutions would be later seen as central to conservative ideologies, he also took positions that many conservatives would have disavowed, including support of the American Revolution and Irish independence from Britain. His most famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, was written in the form of a letter to a French friend. \)ġ4 Vicki Hsueh and Shirin Deylami Figure 13.1 Edmund Burke.Įdmund Burke was an Irish statesman, journalist, and writer. ![]()
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