In the Present Discontents, Burke laid out his constitutional theory, including his famous defense of political parties.
Max Skjönsberg
For Hume, liberty was something unintended and fragile, yet precious.
Ross Carroll’s new introduction to Edmund Burke’s political thought examines the man of letters and the man of action.
There is a clear parallel between Wilkes’s career and the cause of the American revolutionaries.
For Hegel, change needed to build on earlier achievements and learn from past failures.
The philosophy of the modern state contained in Reflections made people rethink what it meant to be a Whig.
Robin Douglass offers a redeeming interpretation of one of the most scandalous books of the Enlightenment: Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees.
Hume was a quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters, as evidenced by his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.
Max Skjönsberg is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida.