sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] radiantfracture 2020-01-15 11:37 pm (UTC)

Do you know anything about Burke beyond the sublime? His political theory? Any particular highlights?

I associate him more with politics more than philosophy of aesthetics, but the only biographical fact that I seem to know well enough about him to recount off the top of my head is his complicated relationship to the American Revolution: he did not want to see the American colonies separate themselves from the British Empire, but he thought the colonists had legitimate grievances and argued openly (and accurately) against the use of force by the British government on the grounds that it would only worsen the rift and the British would probably lose.

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