Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
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Burke's View of Human Nature
Burke's view of human nature was such that one always had to tread a careful line in political reform. Success in politics must be based on compromise, he said. But at the same time Burke also held a view that human beings are given to deference. They have a capacity for respect and they are in awe of greatness.
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