Political Science · Political Theory
The book 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' was written by which one of the following conservative thinkers?
AEdmund Burke ✓ Correct
BMichael Oakeshott
CJames Alexander
DAndrew Heywood
Correct answer: (A) Edmund Burke — Edmund Burke wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France, so the answer is Edmund Burke.
Explanation
★Edmund Burke wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France, so the answer is Edmund Burke.
★Published in 1790, it is the founding text of modern conservatism.
★Burke attacked the French Revolution for its abstract reasoning and violent break with the past.
★He defended tradition, prescription and gradual, organic reform over sudden upheaval.
★For him society is a partnership between the dead, the living and those yet to be born.
★Oakeshott later carried this anti-rationalist conservatism forward in his own essays.
★Alexander and Heywood are recent commentators on these ideas, not the author of this classic.
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