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Burke and Natural Rights
Edmund Burke was at once a chief exponent of the Ciceronian doctrine of natural law and
a chief opponent of the “rights of man.” In our time, which is experiencing simultaneously
a revival of interest in natural-law theory and an enthusiasm for defining “human rights”
that is exemplified by the United Nations' lengthy declaration, Burke's view of the natural
juridic order deserves close attention.
Unlike Bolingbroke and Hume, whose outward politics in some respects resembled the great
Whig statesman's, Burke was a pious man. “The most important questions about the human
race Burke answered … from the Church of England's catechism.” He takes for granted a
Christian cosmos, in which a just God has established moral principles for man's salvation.
God has given man law, and with that law, rights; such, succinctly, is Burke's premise in all
moral and juridical questions.
A theological defence of Burkean conservatism and a critique of contractarian liberalism
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Secondly, I have analysed the theological content of Burke's political thought, demonstrating that
Burke's political thought emerged from his Christian faith and his concomitant belief in the natural law.
I have argued that, as a result, there is a profound consonance between the central principles of the
Christian faith and the conservative tradition which followed Burke.
日本の保守主義が初動の段階から亜流となったのは、キリスト教が無いからであり、バークの保守主義を理解・成立しうる
文化的土壌が欠けているからだ。福沢諭吉は天という言葉を使ったが、これをキリスト教と正反対の儒教倫理で代用しても極端な腐敗や
閉塞した社会の停滞を防ぐことはできなかった
キリスト教がない保守主義からの民主主義は慈善にかけ、民主主義は縁故選民主義、利己主義、拝金主義に収束した偽民主主義と化す