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Learning and Great powers (International relations)

Scarcity, Justice, Aristotelianism (Philosophy), Political philosophy, and Religious thought

Despite the resurgence of academic interest on Edmund Burke's economic ideas, there seems to be room for further research on how his economic ideas were connected to his political and religious thought. Here the purpose is to examine how Anglicanism and Aristotelianism informed Burke's economics. Through his tract Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, it is attempted to answer what role Christian charity played in his thought and how Burke's concept of Aristotelian justice informed his economic ideas. Overall, the goal is to provide for a case study on connecting economic to political and religious thought in the 18th-century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prefaces & forewords and Learning

Economic history, Business cycles, Government policy, International competition, Property rights, Cultural pluralism, and Gratitude

Despite his striking findings on the link between Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment, Pocock ([28], [29]) failed to address the theoretical aspect of Burke's idea of money. Burke's political economy has drawn the attention of commentators since the nineteenth century, including prominent economists such as J. M. Keynes and F. A. Hayek. Nevertheless, largely owing to their historical memory of 1720, Hume, Burke, and Smith shared a skepticism of paper money, even though Burke's and Smith's views on paper money were more positive than Hume's. Viewed together with Canavan's ([5]) emphasis on the idea of property in Burke, it is now clear that manners, property, and industry played a central role in Burke's idea of political economy, and the first two were the chief elements that enabled the third. [Extracted from the article]

PROPERTY rights, NATURAL law, POLITICAL science, HUMILITY, and SUPPLY-side economics

POLITICAL science, POLITICAL philosophy, NATURAL law, ECONOMIC policy, and INDUSTRIAL relations

LIBERTY, VIRTUE, CONSUMER preferences, VIRTUES, POLITICAL philosophy, and POLITICAL science

HUMAN body, SUBLIME, The, SUBJECTIVITY in literature, INTIMACY (Psychology), and LANGUAGE & culture

In the Enquiry , Burke gives voice to a traumatic cultural symptom—an inaccessible yet necessary sublimity—that is bound to his dual role as English and Irish and his understanding of the many versions of subjectivity in eighteenth-century aesthetics. Burke gives further articulation to conventional notions of sympathy by positing the sympathetic sublime as a possible mediator of inflicted and symptomatic traumas—traumas that cannot be reduced or generalized as a unified, theoretical "trauma" but instead remain individual regardless of Burke's desire to make them part of a transcendental aesthetic. The necessary distance presupposed by a sublime experience is counteracted by the intimacy of the imagination—we must make a painful experience a personal one in order to sympathize with it—and this intimacy occurs when the subject is confronted by both the gender and language of an other. Such confrontation reconfigures notions of the self and its position within the economy of modern imperialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Segregation in education, Elections, Conservatism, United States presidential election, 2020, State power, Social order, Democrats (United States), and Political debates

PLURALISM, VIRTUE, VIRTUES, LIBERTY, and AWARENESS

Given his commitment to toleration, Edmund Burke is rightly seen as a moral pluralist. What has largely gone unnoticed, however, is his value pluralism. Whereas moral pluralism refers to normative positions regarding what we have reason to do when faced with diverse considerations, value pluralism is a meta-ethical position regarding how we resolve conflicts between any number of reasons for action. Like Isaiah Berlin, Burke maintains both that we may be faced with value conflicts and that we cannot identify the general rule for their resolution. However, Burke, at times, adopts a weak version of value pluralism, identifying a general rule for the resolution of some moral conflicts. This is the case when he insists that liberty cannot exist at all without order and virtue, and when he reassures his readers that toleration of Irish Catholicism poses no threat to the established order. At other times, however, Burke offers a strong version of value pluralism, eschewing any such rule. One of the benefits of doing so is the awareness that toleration may be justified even when contrary to the demands of order and virtue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]