M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
75 followers · 725 posts · Server cosocial.ca

@DiegoBeghin But then how did predict in 1790 that the Revolution would end in tyranny? Was it just by chance?

#edmundburke

Last updated 1 year ago

Donald Roy · @djr
148 followers · 2961 posts · Server union.place

@fkamiah17

The have had a fraught relationship with since the 1980s - even 's embrace of the "Big Society" much later was as much about getting leverage over them as supporting them - but the present lot have drifted to roughly the same anti civil society model as various illiberal democracies - which I need not name!

A really long distance from the "little platoons" valued by !

#conservatives #charities #davidcameron #edmundburke

Last updated 1 year ago

BC Info Bot · @bcinfo
417 followers · 28826 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.ca
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1293 followers · 399 posts · Server mastodon.ie
helices · @helices
114 followers · 5140 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Use of alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it doesn't remove necessity of subduing again

#force #edmundburke

Last updated 1 year ago

helices · @helices
114 followers · 5137 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

People will not look forward to , who never look backward to their ancestors

#posterity #edmundburke

Last updated 1 year ago

Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
565 followers · 2531 posts · Server mas.to
helices · @helices
113 followers · 5054 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods

#judge #edmundburke

Last updated 2 years ago

Lorna Peel · @LornaPeel
141 followers · 228 posts · Server mastodon.ie

We're a Couple of Swells. c1870. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.

#dublin #ireland #oldphotosofdublin #19thcentury #trinitycollegedublin #edmundburke

Last updated 2 years ago

Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1260 followers · 466 posts · Server mastodon.ie

"People crushed by law have no hopes but for power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous more or less." Edmund Burke, Letter to Charles Fox, 8 Oct. 1777 (Corr., II, 387.)

irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/16

#edmundburke #irishphilosophy

Last updated 2 years ago

Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1260 followers · 468 posts · Server mastodon.ie

died 1774. Novelist, poet, playwright. He lived by his pen, also writing philosophical essays, including on aesthetics (as debated by Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke) irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04

Wrote first bio of including this wild story from college days irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/23

Wrote an early elegy for a selection of friends, including irishphilosophy.com/2015/04/04

The original "Citizen of the World" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1

#OliverGoldsmith #otd #georgeberkeley #edmundburke #IrishPhilosophyOTD

Last updated 2 years ago

M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
385 followers · 16252 posts · Server mamot.fr

@keithzg I agree with that an MP owes his constituents not just his vote, but his judgement. That is, MPs should vote as they think would be best for the country; they should ally themselves with others who have similar views about policies; and the electorate should choose MPs based upon their judgements, the policies they back, and whom they support to hold the high offices of state.

1/

#edmundburke

Last updated 2 years ago

Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1200 followers · 628 posts · Server mastodon.ie

RT @JoeHumphreys42 on Twitter

[Wollstonecraft]'s breakthrough work "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790) was ironically an attack on TCD grandee who she lambasted with a fair dose of anti-Irish sentiment and reverse sexism.

UCD's Katherine O’Donnell explains here: irishtimes.com/culture/was-ire

Link to Katherine O’Donnell's paper: researchgate.net/publication/3

The full thread mobile.twitter.com/JoeHumphrey

#edmundburke #irishphilosophy #Wollstonecraft

Last updated 2 years ago

Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1190 followers · 619 posts · Server mastodon.ie

What Is the Ideal World? 5 Utopias Proposed by Famous Philosophers.

Includes the satirical of presented in "A Vindication of Natural Society". Parodying Bolingbrook and others, it's not conservative, and lacks much of a state, or religion. Its proponents in "Vindication" report doubts "that the Creator did ever really intend Man for a State of Happiness", with no prospect of optimism for the future or hereafter.

thecollector.com/what-is-the-i

#utopia #edmundburke

Last updated 2 years ago

Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1148 followers · 792 posts · Server mastodon.ie

The only thing necessary for the triumph of quote misattribution is for good men to do nothing.

On the birthday of the man who infamously just kept on talking, the thing he didn't say quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/

#edmundburke #irishphilosophy

Last updated 2 years ago

Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1148 followers · 790 posts · Server mastodon.ie
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1148 followers · 790 posts · Server mastodon.ie
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1148 followers · 782 posts · Server mastodon.ie

12 Jan: probably the most written about person in , was born in (some say Co. Cork) 1730.

His greatest philosophical work was probably the "Philosophical enquiry into the origins of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful" (1757)

A Whig politician, he made important contributions re the and the

The latter resulted in his 20th century adoption by Tories.

bio & pic dib.ie/biography/burke-edmund-

#irishphilosophy #edmundburke #dublin #otd #aesthetics #americanrevolution #frenchrevolution #dib

Last updated 2 years ago

Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1148 followers · 782 posts · Server mastodon.ie

12 Jan: probably the most written about person in , was born in (some say Co. Cork) 1730.

His greatest philosophical work was probably the "Philosophical enquiry into the origins of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful" (1757)

A Whig politician, he made important contributions re the and the

The latter resulted in his 20th century adoption by Tories.

bio & pic dib.ie/biography/burke-edmund-

#irishphilosophy #edmundburke #dublin #otd #aesthetics #americanrevolution #frenchrevolution #dib

Last updated 2 years ago

History of Parliament · @HistParl
1189 followers · 278 posts · Server mas.to

Born 1729, Edmund Burke first entered Parliament for Wendover in 1765. In 1770, he wrote a pamphlet defending the Rockingham Whigs. Find out more about his alignment with the Whig party👇 ow.ly/HG4M50M17n4

@histodons @histodon

#burke #edmundburke #Whigs #18thcentury #otd

Last updated 2 years ago