Edmund Burke and the theory of international relations
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Review of International Studies
- Vol. 10 (3) , 205-218
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210500116201
Abstract
Burke did not count himself a theorist. Metaphysics, abstraction, was stuff for professor So If the speculation of the classroom was brought too close to the life of politics the result was unsettling, dangerous, revolutionary. Politicians should be people of practice not theory, attending to circumstance before principle, working within a tradition not innovating, reforming before countenancing revolution. They should be concerned with the whole of human nature and not just with human reason, with feeling as well as with thought.Keywords
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