Reflections on the Revolution in France
by Edmund Burke
The founding text of conservatism: tradition as accumulated wisdom, society as a contract between the dead, living and unborn, and a prophecy of the Terror.
Read it if…
you want the intellectual root of conservatism.
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Skip it if…
you want a system; it is a long letter.
Try instead: Utilitarianism →
Three things you will actually use
- Change to conserve.
- Inherited wisdom has value.
- Beware abstract schemes.
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Read the passages on prejudice and on the little platoon.
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Burke's Reflections.
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