POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Misogyny
Document Summary
The first part deals with the glorious revolution and setting up a different plan for it, instead of richard price"s. The next section is what he has to say about the french revolution. The 3rd section contains very popular phrases about marie antoinette and chivalry. In the 4th section he distinguishes his concept of contract from the other that have been put forward. Political system in symmetry with the order of the world". Politics ought to preserve the method of nature". Conformity to nature fortifies the fallible and feeble contrivances of our reason". Bases of reverence same in individuals as institutions. Nature and passion (not speculation and inventions) are the conservatories of our rights. ". Burke has suspicion and does not believe that human reason alone is able to structure the world in a coherent way. Change must be incremental, not radical or innovative. The monarchs had a huge power because they could call them and dismiss them.
