Edmund Burke

Doctor Russell Kirk, is a name that I never had heard of much less even understood his significance in American history and politics before I started at Emporia. While identifying as a Conservative for most of my life (Please forgive me, but my parents were “New Deal” Democrats and I was young at the time); I never understood the philosophy or the background of the Conservative movement. More importantly, I never connected faith and personal values into what it meant to be a Conservative. I…

Introduction The rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain led to dramatic change within many nations throughout the nineteenth century through the expansion of British Empire abroad, as well as other forms of encounters between British colonisers or conquerors and its vassal states. There has always, however, been a double aspect to such expansions. This gives clear attention to liberalism 's ability to negotiate difference in a context of empire and to inspire the audiences through the analysis…

conceal”/ “Advancing clouds from every point of heaven” / “Like hosts of gathering foes” (3-8). In the next section the speaker describes the anticipation of both humans and animals have of this coming storm. Here the sublime is very strongly conveyed. Edmund Burke declares that “no passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear”/ “whatever…

good and other people like Mary Wollstonecraft think that humans acquire those high morals and good through life, specifically with life experiences. In her famous letter, “ A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, occasioned by his Reflection on the Revolution in France” she explained that this good called virtue is demonstrated trough three important factors; wisdom, and morals. The definition of virtue is very simple; it’s the quality of doing…

The democratic party and the republican party are the two major political parties in the United States. The democratic party’s chosen political ideology is (modern) liberalism while the republican’s chosen one is conservatism. But, what is a political ideology and what are the differences between liberalism and conservatism? A political ideology is a set of ideas, principles and beliefs, taken on by a group or an individual, that explains how society should function, what our role, as humans, is…

Mary Shelley showed in Frankenstein an anticipated argument that promoted a feminist message and warning against the exclusion of women as well as the debate of what is ethical. Most certainly the Enlightenment period was a time of development within most aspects of life, varying from medicine, technology, to literature as well as developing oneself to become an individual with unique thoughts and comprehending reason without simply following authoritative figures. The publication of…

Burke establishes that the Sublime can produce pleasure. The Sublime may inspire horror, but one receives pleasure in knowing that the perception is a fiction (Burke). Burke’s notions of pleasure and the Sublime can easily be seen as conducive to Barthes’ ideologies of texts of pleasure and bliss. However, it still establishes that…

today I believe this image has the ability to still be striking today not, and definitely not for the reason of it wanting to make you to smoke but rather the emotion that can come off it. The art has the ability to describe a sense of depression. Burke states “For first, we must remember that the idea of pain to the highest degree, is much stronger than the highest degree of pleasure” when it comes to art, and this art work can be considered to show both sides of the coin. On one side, its…

The Age of Enlightenment began from 1685 to 1815. This long age began with the newly instituted License Act of 1695 that stopped censorship of the press. Because of this, political literature was very popular for the first twenty years, which is why pamphlets were still being used to persuade deciding voters to vote for candidates in office. Also, journalism gained even more traction, and now there were businesses devoted to this practice just like we see today. British thinkers…

Liberalism, Conservatism, and Ideological Challenges to the Status Quo were topics covered in Chapter 4. Although high school I have heard of the term Liberalism, but I never understood what the term really meant. I learned that Liberalism is “an ideology that regards the individual as a rational being capable of overcoming obstacles to a better world.” Also, it “supports changes in the political and economic status quo.” John Locke an English philosopher is known for this form of American…