Episode #050 ... Are You Left Or Right?
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Burke Was a Defender of the American Revolution and the French Revolution
The true test of an idea's legitimacy, to edmund burke, was whether something was rooted in tradition. The thinking was that if something had been a long running institution throughout a society' history and they had been successful with it for a really long time, it must work. This is why he was for the american revolution and against the french revolution. Burke claimed that the ideas central to the french revolution weren't based in the tradition of the people of france. And even if it wasn't alien, burke said, he claimed that it doesn't adequately dress man's nature. It's a whole another section of us thought very interesting.
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