Violence, terror and power in Burke, Paine and Herder

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  • Cinta Canterla González
Keywords: liberalism, violence, despotism, enlightenment, Burke, Herder, Paine, French Revolution

Abstract

The pourpose of this paper is to show that the analysis on the links between liberalism and despotism was already present in the philosophy of the Enlightenment, before the French Revolution. Such an analysis took the form of a thorough criticism of the theory of reasonable power. According to that theory it was legitimate that a few, on behalf of the liberal State, steered politics rationally adjusting the majority to their strategic guidelines, becoming spokesmen of the public reason. The origin of this conviction would be, according to their critics, a hygienic and abstract determination of the reason and the human nature.

 

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Canterla González, C. (2009). Violence, terror and power in Burke, Paine and Herder. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (47), 7–26. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/97391
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