Burke on Politics and Culture Research Assignment

Burke on Politics and Culture
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Burke on Politics and Culture
Edmund Burke has been a significant and influential figure synonymous with conservatism which is evident and recorded in his numerous literature publications and countless books that contain an important political and cultural thought. In the recent years, Burke was presented to the whole world, more specifically to the broadsheet reading class, as one of the great philosophers and the leading originator of modern political and cultural ideas. Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’, first published on November 1 1790, is the text that built his reputation and status before the eyes of the whole world as he made numerous reflections on the implications of the contents of the French Revolution.
However, in his reflections, Burke deplores the French Revolution as something that should not be accepted by the society. He also makes attempts to throw away the culture of the land of Britain, France and the whole of England while trying to introduce new cultural traditions in the British cultural heritage and constitution with the belief that the changes would change the future world. However, although most of his reflections and recommendations were partially right and supported by many of his followers, his implications were rather discriminative, barbarous and unrealistically applicable in the modern world. Therefore, this paper aims at explaining the aspect of the importance of manners with support to the argument that manners are important in the day-to-day life of an individual.[Donlan, S. (2001) Beneficence Acting by a Rule: Edmund Burke on Law, History, Manners. Irish Jurist (1996-), 36, new series, 227-264.]
In his work, Reflections on the revolution in France (1790), Burke presents his plausible knowledge, training and recognition of the law. One part of his texts implies that the pride of the human intellect as well as its mistakes, defects and errors is because of the collected reasons reviewed and analyzed over a long period of time with the help of specific human concerns and original justice. However, Burke, in all of his books, does not seem to get to understand the shallow meaning and misunderstandings of his work. As a utilitarian and a supporter of conservatism, work does not always fully analyzed and explained while the meaning to his texts are always his own rhetoric and idea interpretations which are not actually based on facts. This text examines the interrelation of laws and manners explained using Burke’s thought.
Chivalry is an ancient term used in the field of art to refer to the union of manners and other aspects like public virtue, morals and martial spirit. In this context, Burke called for the elimination of all checks associated with power, meaning that an individual was not allowed to have power over another individual in the society. This left the notion of conflict and conflict resolution to the account of self-interest, meaning that a conflict would be resolved by modes decided and devised by the individuals involved. Burke also supported the notion of legal positivism and political economy. In turn, this led to the creation of his theory of human nature elaborated in his text Reflections on the revolution in France of 1790 where he came up with the revolutionary ideology that 'laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests’. However, this is not entirely right because the most important aspects of politics that support laws and law making include commerce and modernity not to mentioned civilized manners. Therefore, manners are a significant constitute of politics and should be supported and protected.[Donlan, S. (2001) Beneficence Acting by a Rule: Edmund Burke on Law, History, Manners. Irish Jurist (1996-), 36, new series, 227-264.]
There are many why Burke viewed that it was important to overcome and totally eliminate the fact that an individual should be given should be granted a monopoly and privilege of power over his or her colleagues. One is because we was less concerned with the notion that commerce was the most important tool acting as the driving force of development and progress of the society. He did not know that on a large part, commerce and law was supported by the slow development of manners within the European society. Even in the current society, people tend to believe that the driving of development are commerce, trade, political systems and economical politicians. However, on the other hand, these principles are subject to decay even with the worship and natural protecting that they receive. Civilized manners are slow, fragile but gradual and politically significant forces of change in every society because the principles built on right capacity of manners cannot decay, disrupted or changed. In addition, modern forms of liberty and a culture of politeness is promoted by beneficence. Beneficence is an important virtue that sets free a society as. However, when beneficence is compared with law and justice, a society can safely exist without beneficence but laws and justice are essential for the smooth and peaceful running of the society.[Donlan, S. (2001) Beneficence Acting by a Rule: Edmund Burke on Law, History, Manners. Irish Jurist (1996-), 36, new series, 227-264.]
In his reflection, Burke rejects the fact with the idea that a society is not a self-sufficient entity without a law and that it cannot be run without a combination of a law and beneficence. Nevertheless, he did not have the knowledge that manners develop beneficence ...