Posted by Jeff on January 30, 19100 at 16:29:49:

In Reply to: What was Burkes View of human Nature? posted by Richard Quaterm on November 26, 1999 at 11:26:21:

: I would like to hear as many point of views as i can
: about Burk'es view on human nature and how this affected
: his stance on the French revolution.

: R.I.Quaterm@unlan.ac.uk

Burke's view of Human Nature was that of a realist. He was an empiricist,
a risk minimizer. He believed that Human Nature unchecked by law was
a dangerous thing. Humans do not possess inate natural rights, they possess Chartered rights,
those rights emerging through a societies Historical traditions and sacred institutions wrought over time.
He was no friend to abstract theories such as Jefferson's "inalienable rights of men".
Burke would have felt that was an unqaulified statement, it sounds beautiful, but what does really mean! real
rights are forged by men working together over time through trial and error, that is what really happens.
I suggest you read "Cicero" Burke was a big fan of him.

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