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Edmund Burke — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1729–1797 · Britain / Ireland · Statesman & philosopher

Edmund Burke

Father of conservatism

Reform to preserve — order, custom, and the wisdom of generations.

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The Anglo-Irish statesman whose response to the French Revolution founded modern conservatism: change must be gradual, rooted in custom and inherited institutions.

social

Deeply traditional: society as a contract between the dead, the living, and the unborn.

economic

Favoured commercial society and property rights, distrusting both mercantile cronyism and levelling schemes.

governance

Defended established institutions and ordered liberty under a constitutional crown and parliament.

Notable for
  • 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'
  • Defended the American colonists' grievances
  • Theory of ordered, prescriptive liberty
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