Burke, Edmund

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) was an Anglo - Irish social and political philosopher and statesman. He is considered the founder of Anglo - American conservatism. Burke served in the House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He supported the American colonies and opposed the French Revolution, which he attacked in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). He also wrote a treatise on aesthetics, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). ;

British orator, statesman, political thinker and an advocate of many human rights causes. Burke later emerged as the advocate of the Feudal Association in Europe and as time passed by, he became more ardent in his criticism of the French Revolution.;