The Metaphysics of Edmund Burke by Joseph L. Pappin PAPERBACK 9780823213665

The Metaphysics of Edmund BurkeAuthor(s): Joseph Pappin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823213665, 978-0823213665\nSynopsis\nThe most recent commentators on Edmund Burke have renewed the charge that his political thought lacks the consistency and coherency necessary to even claim the status of a political philosophy and that he is indeed a \""utilitarian.\"" They mark him off as an \""ideologist,\"" a \""rhetorician,\"" and a \""deliberate propagandist.\"" Even Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, his most profound statement of a political philosophy, is regarded by some as a work of mere \""persuasion,\"" not \""philosophy.\"" All this occurs in spite of the seminal work of Stanlis, Canavan, and Wilkins, who in the 1950s and '60s, demonstrated the natural law foundations of Burke's politics. Burke revisionists, forced to acknowledge his use of the \""natural law,\"" label such use as a rhetorical m""