Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics

The eighteenth century thinker and politician Edmund Burke was one of the founders of modern conservativism. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France he attacked the revolution. For this episode of Philosophy Bites Richard Bourke of Queen Mary, London University, puts Burke in his historical context and outlines his key ideas.

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Abstracts of Articles by Richard Bourke:

'Edmund Burke and the Politics of Conquest'

'Liberty, Authority, and Trust in Burke's Idea of Empire'

'Edmund Burke and enlightenment sociability: justice, honour and the principles of government'