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He advocates prudence and is against inexperience. “... try a thing as new power in new persons, of whose principles, tempers, and dispositions, they have little or no experience...” (91)
The degrees of freedom of a society depend on human nature leveled by education. It is the issue of ignorance versus knowledge.
If for Burke Revolution in France is unnatural because it is antithetical to the natural order 3⁄4 for its cycles are abrupt (too sudden, too theoretical, too abstract) 3⁄4 then it is equally understandable that for Burke the Revolutionary call for “Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood” is also unnatural since emancipation is the mother of freedom. First of all, it is important to understand the complexities of liberty. But what is liberty? We might say that natural liberty is one that follows a predetermined and invariable cosmic order and one which is two-fold: liberty as pre-ordained by Destiny or liberty as following the Natural order. To face up to freedom when our lives are predestined is of no great I
If destiny has not chosen me, freedom in this case merely means one does not count. However, those who have been chosen by destiny are not free in the sense that they can do anything they want. In the second aspect, when the cosmic order follows the Natural Order freedom becomes wisdom, the wisdom to know to what extent an individual should of the interwoven of the natural
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