re: #464 HappyWarrior

Yeah I found that interesting too. I think it was his honest way of saying he wouldn’t know what to do if something had threatened the only life he’d known had he lived in the revolutionary era. I didn’t fault for him that honestly because I found it honest. And hey just because you’re an Anglophile doesn’t mean you can’t be a passioante small letter, r, republican. You could have been Charles James Fox. The one thing I don’t get is why Edmund Burke gets labeled as a conservative. I get that he wasn’t a radical but his views for the 18th century seem fairly liberal in that he supported our independence, wanted the penal laws repealed in Ireland, etc.
en.wikipedia.org

Fox had his moments thought honestly I like Burke better.

Mill and Wittgenstein for philosophy
Burke and Locke for politics
Smith and Marx for economics
Cranmer and Hooker for religion

Pragmatism, utilitarianism, compassion & progress

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