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To: JohnHuang2
Very nice. I'm bookmarking this about 2/3 through because I've got to get to bed. But it's really an excellent essay.
2 posted on
02/04/2003 10:30:27 PM PST by
Cicero
To: JohnHuang2
Worth re-reading again tomorrow.
3 posted on
02/04/2003 10:36:31 PM PST by
marron
To: JohnHuang2
Great read.
Thanks for posting it.
To: JohnHuang2
This is truly one of the most incredible essays I have ever read.... it is long, but so very, very worth it.
I'm in awe.
Tammy
7 posted on
02/04/2003 10:51:44 PM PST by
Tamzee
To: JohnHuang2
Marvellous, John. Bookmarking and printing it.
And thanks so much for all you do around here. It's the handful of people like you, searching out the best in writing, like this, that make FR the constant delight it is.
To: JohnHuang2
What interested me in the [Burke's] Reflections was the positive political philosophy, The wisest person I know suggested this book to me and I still haven't read it...
11 posted on
02/04/2003 11:40:50 PM PST by
KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: JohnHuang2
*bump*
12 posted on
02/04/2003 11:45:01 PM PST by
Tredge
To: JohnHuang2
The trouble with Edmund Burke's philosophy is that it can be used to justify anything. Therefore, it says nothing.
14 posted on
02/04/2003 11:56:32 PM PST by
The Great Satan
(Revenge, Terror and Extortion: A Guide for the Perplexed)
To: JohnHuang2
BUMP
To: JohnHuang2
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22 posted on
02/05/2003 4:34:59 AM PST by
dennisw
( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
To: JohnHuang2
Bookmarking.
28 posted on
02/05/2003 8:24:16 AM PST by
HumanaeVitae
(The purpose of the 'animal rights' movement is not to humanize animals; it is to dehumanize men.)
To: Clemenza; PARodrig; rmlew; firebrand; nutmeg; Yehuda; RaceBannon; Warrior Nurse
philosophy ding dong. Aren't you tired of pings?
32 posted on
02/06/2003 1:51:24 AM PST by
Cacique
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To: JohnHuang2; kdf1; AMERIKA; Lancey Howard; MudPuppy; SMEDLEYBUTLER; opbuzz; Snow Bunny; ...
This is a very good read!
To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for this truly outstanding post, JohnHuang2.
To: JohnHuang2
bump. thanks for posting such a thoughtful article.
To: JohnHuang2
bump
43 posted on
02/07/2003 8:43:25 AM PST by
VOA
To: JohnHuang2
We should ponder the extraordinary fact that Oxford University, which granted an honorary degree to Bill Clinton on the grounds that he had once hung around its precincts, refused the same honor to Margaret Thatcher, its most distinguished post-war graduate and Britains first woman Prime Minister. Appalling.
To: JohnHuang2
Great post - I get chills reading the scene in Czechoslovakia. "The air raid was me." Just so.
You have to realize that when Burke wrote Reflections that the revolution in France had not yet entered its Terror phase, and that much of what he wrote that appears to us as a sad chronicle was, in fact, a stunning prediction. So accurate it's spooky, so accurate I wouldn't have believed it if it hadn't already been published by the time the heads started appearing in the baskets.
I, like "feller" above, read it and its reply by Paine, The Rights of Man, in sequence. The one serves as a corrective to the other, Paine's passionate defense of liberty contrasted against Burke's grim prediction of just how that would be abused, Burke's equally passionate defense of the existing social order punctured by Paine's description of how that had been abused. Both men were foreigners (Burke, Irish, and Paine, English) working in their respective venues (Britain and France), and hence had a view of their subject unclouded by simple parochialism. Both wrote beautifully and convincingly about their points of view.
I find it a bit disturbing that American colleges are lauded as presenting more of a corrective to Marxism than their European counterparts, inasmuch as the former seem the last bastion of true belief in such intellectual manipulators as Michael Foucault. That fellow is mandatory reading for anyone who really wants to get inside the motivations of today's left - to Foucault life is politics and politics is (literally) a struggle for power between groups pursuing dominance over other groups. What seems odd to me is the emotional attachment many of his followers have to this essentially sterile view of society, but they are as passionate about it as Burke and Paine were, without the redeeming element of rational analysis (that being - surprise! - merely a tool of power in Foucault's view, like everything else). Political discourse between left and right has been cheapened and made superficial, and that's one reason.
To: JohnHuang2
I'm glad that you enjoyed my writings.
To: JohnHuang2
And a belated Thank You to you for a fine article, John, and for teaching me once again that I am not too old to learn.
55 posted on
02/08/2003 8:39:53 AM PST by
Phaedrus
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