Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Edmund Burke: The First Conservative [...]
A Brief Introduction to Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke is one of the most important — if not the most important — political thinkers in the last three hundred years.
Kant, Burke, and the French Revolution
Providing some insight into Kant for the philosophizing theologian, the 1789 revolution was a laboratory for Kant; seeing his theories put into practice. Read how Kant's former students, influenced by Edmund Burke, began turning their face away from Kant.
Society’s Proper Foundation: Love
No pre-society civilization ever existed. All sentient moral beings are by definition relational. Therefore, man's desire to love and be loved is the cause of civilization.
Edmund Burke’s Conservative Compassion
As conservatives, we know that charity, if emptied of free will, is emptied of love. And Edmund Burke, the Father of Conservatism, understood this well.