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1. The Problem of Burke's Political Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ian White
Ian White
Affiliation:
St John's College Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 1968 , pp. 555 - 565
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1 But see ‘On Edmund Burke's Doctrine of Prescription; or, An Appeal from the New to the Old Lawyers’ by Lucas, Paul, The Historical Journal, XI, 1 (1968), 35–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Professor Wilkins has been reading Descartes.

3 Nor, perhaps, ordinary old chairs, but what about the Coronation Chair?

4 ‘RULE: 1. Government; empire; sway; supreme command. 2. an instrument by which lines are drawn. 3. Canon; precept by which the thoughts or actions are directed. 4. Regularity; propriety of behaviour (not in use). PRINCIPLE: 1. element; constituent part; primordial substance. 2. original cause. 3. Being productive of other being; operative cause. 4. Fundamental truth; original postulate; first position from which others are deduced. 5. Ground of action; motive. 6. Tenet on which morality is founded.’ Johnson, Dictionary.

5 Perhaps that is why, elsewhere in a footnote, he suggests as a supreme moral principle: Do good and avoid evil.