 The state of civil society which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature ; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable, and he is never perfectly in his natural state but when...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 41by Edmund Burke - 1835Full view - About this book
 | James W. Vice - 1998 - 300 pages
...New to the Old Whigs, he completely redefines the "state of nature" and says that "man is never so perfectly in his natural state but when he is placed...reason may be best cultivated and most predominates. Ar t is man's nature" (A: 105). To investigate the proper relation between human nature and government,... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - 1996 - 395 pages
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 | F. R. Ankersmit - 2002 - 284 pages
...Rousseau, Burke wrote in his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791) the famous and often quoted words: "For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never...best cultivated and most predominates. Art is man's nature."6 In the first place we should observe with how little reluctance Burke avails himself here... | |
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - 2003 - 384 pages
...generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable; and...be best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man 's nature. We are as much, at least, in a state of nature in formed manhood, as in immature and... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 pages
...1.76.1). Likewise for Burke, as he puts forward in his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791): "For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never...placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates."36 But matters are far more complex than the simple assertion of man's rationality. In... | |
 | Eileen Hunt Botting - 2012 - 268 pages
...state of civil society ... is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable; and...formed manhood, as in immature and helpless infancy." 50 Burke outdoes even Rousseau with these paradoxes—and indeed, this passage can be read as a sharp... | |
 | F. W. Raffety - 2006 - 168 pages
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 | W. David Clinton - 2007 - 272 pages
...explained, "is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. Art is man's nature. We are as much, at least, in...formed manhood, as in immature and helpless infancy." 26 Thus, as Charles Parkin explains, for Burke the term nature is more applicable to the social state.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 84 pages
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 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 212 pages
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