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 - Sivu 41tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1835Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Edmund Burke - 1887 - 590 sivua
...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...natural state, but when he is placed where reason may he best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature "We are as much, at least, in a state... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1901 - 524 sivua
...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...never perfectly in his natural state, but when he is txaplaced where reason may be best cultivated and most /> predominates. Art is man's nature. We are... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1925 - 376 sivua
...ip 523. * Ib. 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...natural state, but when he is placed where reason may best be cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. We are as much at least in a state... | |
| Dante Germino - 1979 - 416 sivua
...they continued in the simplicity of their original direction."7 This is because "art is man's nature": "For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never...best cultivated and most predominates. Art is man's nature."8 Thus Burke appeals from the predominant modern view that society is an artifact to the Aristotelian... | |
| James Chandler - 1984 - 338 sivua
...this paradox in a way that reveals one of his central disagreements with the position of Rousseau: "For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never...formed manhood as in immature and helpless infancy. . . . When great multitudes act together under that discipline of Nature, I recognize the PEOPLE" (BW... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 sivua
...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...cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. (Works 6:2.18) As in the thought of Swift and Pope, aristocracy in this sense means something more... | |
| Michael Bentley - 2002 - 376 sivua
...by itself would have implied.44 By the same token, improvement was natural. Burke thought that man 'is never perfectly in his natural state, but when...placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates'.4' He summoned up a picture in which improvement, not only in intellect but also in the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 sivua
...'Art is man's nature', Burke wrote, because 'man is by nature reasonable; and he is never perfecdy in his natural state, but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated'. 9 At one level this view enlarged upon the view that man required society to flourish, for 'without... | |
| Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 sivua
...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...natural state, but when he is placed where reason may he best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. I4a Set against this, Swift's transitions... | |
| James Conniff - 1994 - 384 sivua
...state of civil society, which generates such a class, is as natural to man as any primitive model: "we are as much, at least, in a state of Nature in...formed manhood as in immature and helpless infancy." 52 Burke seldom expressed his thoughts on what a society should aspire to, for his mind was not prone... | |
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