Episode 151: Edmund Burke's Conservatism
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2016
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
On Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). What relevance do the concerns of a monarchy-defending aristocrat have for us today? Surprisingly, a lot! The full foursome discuss possible conflicts between freedom, rights, and well-being. What is political freedom without public wisdom? The tyranny of the mob!
End song: "Hard Times of Old England" from Peter Knight's Gigspanner (from Layers of Ages, 2015); listen to Mark's interview with Peter on Nakedly Examined Music #27.
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| 0:53.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who are at one |
| 0:57.5 | point said I'm doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. Our question for |
| 1:02.2 | episode 151 is something like, what role should tradition have in politics? And we'll be discussing |
| 1:09.0 | Edmund Burke's pamphlet, reflections on the revolution in France from 1790. You can join the |
| 1:14.4 | discussion, get the text and less more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com. This is Mark Linton-Meier, |
| 1:19.7 | in need of reformation, but not revolution in medicine, Wisconsin. |
| 1:23.7 | This is Seth Pascon in Austin, Texas. This is Wes Allen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:30.3 | This is Dylan Casey, and Deantley in middle-to-most console. So Burke, we covered Burke a few years ago, |
| 1:38.6 | is aesthetics, one of his early things. This is one of his later things, and it was Wikipedia to say |
| 1:44.7 | it's a pamphlet, but it's 200 pages or 300 pages depending on what version you have. It's 300 pages |
| 1:50.5 | in a penguin paperback. And originally it was written as a letter. In a letter intended to have |
| 1:56.0 | been sent to a gentleman in Paris. Is this subtitle? One of the subtitles. Yeah, that's not to be |
| 2:01.4 | believed by me. Well, apparently he really corresponded with the sky. Many corresponded with lots of |
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