Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a practical politician and supremely conservative thinker, and as such he viewed society as a partnership between the living and the dead.
Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a practical politician and supremely conservative thinker, and as such he viewed society as a partnership between the living and the dead.
Edmund Burke is one of the most important — if not the most important — political thinkers in the last three hundred years.
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.
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.
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.