Collection: Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (born January 12, 1729 in Dublin, died July 9, 1797
in Beaconsfield ) - Irish philosopher and politician, founder of modern conservatism, critic of the French Revolution. He condemned it in the name of the same principles that had previously led him to defend the American Revolution. In America, the past remained an important frame of reference, in France it did not. There, revolution meant breaking continuity and destroying tradition. It imagined that society could be constructed ad hoc , and all traditional relations can be replaced by one central one – between the government and the people. He died in 1797. He ordered his ashes to be scattered so that the Jacobins, who he believed would win, would not desecrate his grave.
