 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect.74 The distinction Burke makes here is not between principle and expedience; both his perspective... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
 | Stephen L. Elkin - 2006 - 428 pages
...always necessary to specify the particular case." Ancients and the Moderns, 11. Cf. Burke's comment that "the circumstances are what render every civil and...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind." Reflections on the Revolution in France, 283. 19. Lipsey and Lancaster, "General Theory of the Second... | |
 | 2007 - 240 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. (12) Burke's condemnation of the construction of a political model on the basis of a "simple view"... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2008 - 592 pages
...practice of viewing an object "as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect." Even Toynbee, the magician of historical analogy, has remarked that... | |
 | David Lewis Schaefer - 2007 - 387 pages
...abstraction." Circumstances, Burke argued, are what give every political principle "its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what...civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."14 In the sharpest contrast to Burke, Rawls holds that accepting his principles commits us... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating efiect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating efiect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
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I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands, stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction.... 
