Sublime

was a dead British orator and writer who was on my mind. Edmund Burke said the problem with war is that it usually consumes the very things that you’re fighting for—justice, decency, humanity—and I couldn’t help but think of how many times I had violated our nation’s deepest values in order to protect them.

Edmund Burke argued that a society should be seen as a: ‘partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born’ (Burke [1790] quoted in Beinhocker 2006: 454). Burke points to the interests of unborn members of a society and how they need a powerful ‘voice’ to counter so

on m’a fait lire Réflexions sur la Révolution de France, d’Edmund Burke. Burke s’opposait à tout ce en quoi je croyais, ou c’est du moins ce que j’ai pensé. Il soutenait que le changement révolutionnaire est brutal – on ne sait jamais quel type d’effets involontaires on va déclencher –, que le pouvoir de la raison ne permet pas de comprendre la com

In 1757, the Irish political philosopher Edmund Burke revolutionized the intellectual contemplation of awe with his celebrated “Philosophical Enquiry,” in which he described the distinction between beauty and “the sublime,” a de facto synonym for awe. Burke argued that the sublime was “our strongest passion.” It could often

Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” I would also add, “and being incapable of doing something.” Interestingly enough, simply knowing how to be violent in the right circumstances may keep a situation from escalating altogether.