3. EDMUND BURKE’S ENLIGHTENMENT da finire

3. EDMUND BURKE’S ENLIGHTENMENT
Note:3@@@@@@@@

Yellow highlight | Page: 71

EDMUND BURKE AND Thomas Paine—
Note:I DISCEPOLI CONTRAPPOSTI DI SMITH

Yellow highlight | Page: 71

standing in the Enlightenment,
Note:UN PDOBLEMA X BURKE

Yellow highlight | Page: 71

conventionally associated with the reaction to the Enlightenment
Note:BERLIN

Yellow highlight | Page: 71

Some of his admirers have as well, seeing in him a welcome antidote to both the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Note:ANCHE GLI AMMIRATORI

Yellow highlight | Page: 71

John Pocock
Note:I PRIMI A SFIDARE LE CONVENZIONI

Yellow highlight | Page: 71

defending Enlightened Europe against the gens de lettres and their revolutionary successors”;
Note:PROFILO ALTERNATIVO

Yellow highlight | Page: 72

Conor Cruise O’Brien agrees.

Yellow highlight | Page: 72

he opposed the French Revolution on liberal and pluralist grounds.
Note:NATURA DELL OPPOSIZIONE

Yellow highlight | Page: 72

a child of the early Enlightenment, that of Locke and Montesquieu”;
Note:LE SUE RADICI

Yellow highlight | Page: 72

the anti-Christian Enlightenment of Voltaire and the “ambiguous and emotion-led neo-religiosity” of Rousseau.
Note:I SUOI NEMICI

Yellow highlight | Page: 72

Gibbon,
Note:UN SUO AFFINE

Yellow highlight | Page: 72

the danger of exposing an old superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude.”
Note:ALLARME DI GOBBPN

Yellow highlight | Page: 72

Burke’s affinity with Smith, when it is recognized at all, is presumed to be confined to economics.
Note:ECONOMIA DI B

Yellow highlight | Page: 73

It may have been his partiality to Ireland that made Burke so ardent a supporter of free trade, which was in the interests of Ireland.
Note:SOSPETTO

Yellow highlight | Page: 73

the proper role of government was to do nothing. “Charity to the poor is a direct and obligatory duty upon all Christians,” but “meddling with the subsistence of the people” would be a violation of economic laws and an illegitimate intrusion of authority.
Note:LA POSIZIONE ECONOMICA

Yellow highlight | Page: 73

homage to “the benign and wise disposer of all things,
Note:LA MANO INVISIBILE

Yellow highlight | Page: 74

the laissez-fairism of the Scarcity pamphlet may be thought inconsistent with the traditionalism
Note:POSSIBILE FRIZIONE

Yellow highlight | Page: 74

pride in being a disciple of Smith while attacking the “economical politicians,” the “sophisters, economists, and calculators,” in the French Revolution.
Note:ALTRA FRIZIONE

Yellow highlight | Page: 75

commercial and economic activities had need of those “natural protecting principles”—nobility, religion, honor, manners—which had traditionally sustained them.
Note:LA LACUNA DEI FRANCESI X B

Yellow highlight | Page: 75

trade and manufactures in the absence of those civilizing conditions,
Note:BARBARIE

Yellow highlight | Page: 75

the standard both of reason and taste is the same in all human creatures.”
Note:ALTRO PUNTO IN COMUNE CON SMITH

Yellow highlight | Page: 75

For Burke as for Smith, this common nature was prior to reason.

Yellow highlight | Page: 76

in his first pamphlet, A Vindication of Natural Society, protested against the “abuse of reason.”
Note:L ABUSO

Yellow highlight | Page: 76

senses and imagination captivate the soul before the understanding
Note:DIO NN PUÒ AFFIDARSI SOLO ALLA RAGIONE

Yellow highlight | Page: 76

“It is by the first of these passions [sympathy] that we enter into the concerns of others;
Note:SMITH ANTICIPATO

Yellow highlight | Page: 76

the Wilkes affair
Note:DEPUT ESPULSO X IL LIBELLO VS IL RE

Yellow highlight | Page: 76

the
DA FINIRE