The Burke-Wollstonecraft debate : savagery, civilization, and democracy /
Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), and a proper understanding of these two thinkers is therefore important as a framework for political debates today. According to Daniel O'N...
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University Park :
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Table des matières:
- The Scottish Enlightenment, the moral sense, and the civilizing process
- Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment
- Wollstonecraft and the Scottish Enlightenment
- "The most important of all revolutions"
- Vindicating a revolution in morals and manners
- Burke on democracy as the death of Western civilization
- Wollstonecraft on democracy as the birth of Western civilization.