Possibly my favorite response to a great political philosopher, Burke, that I wrote... Selfish men relay the idea of tyranny which have the potential for, bloodshed from, an unthinkable loss of civic prosperity. Rights indicated by law through government is believed to be a granted solidarity between men. Although, equal acquirement such as power, authority, and direction must remain at one’s given ability. If civil society be handed down as an agreement, compact or contrast, than it should be proclaimed as law accordingly. Civil society develops the rules that “no man should be judge in his own case... as with this is the right of keeping peace and protection we come to understand that impartiality and selfish cause will only dissolve the principles in which civil society grants” (513). Given this though Burke believes that Government is not made of virtue in natural rights, as these rights are a separate obtainment. Rather it is a plan of wisdom, in which men agree that rights should be provided for by the government. Through passion of will is to civil society advocating for the mass of citizens. These are to be mutual as well as declared only with agreement to the masses. When you reduce these rights you’re left with no intentions for positivity in regards to government. Man is only then set with limitations which are problematic as law which is used to develop ideas that reflect the essence of human nature and human necessity. “Pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes, and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false” (514). The idea of rights that are not beneficial to the many, but rather fulfill the rights of one’s own selfish needs, are perceived as pretended. Developed through the lack of representation in which tyrant, dictators or the majority rule over the unheard. This is the opposite idea Burke describes as “real rights” which say that the development of good is only through the acquirement of man’s ability to compromise. Compromise distinguishes the ideas of developing common interest that is uniquely important to the pertaining of men’s rights. “These rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned” (514). They are commonly of men’s interest and benevolence to one another. Theorists often do the most incorrect thing and theorize that the right of the people can be associated with the idea of power. These “Pretended Rights” would only ever lead to inevitable destruction of a mutually exclusive society that value inter-dependency and civil relations in which “Real Rights” are developed. Therefore to act on these pretended rights would only cause confusion to concern to what man’s actual needs and liberties are. As these developed laws are not truly representative of the society as a whole. The distraught in Burke, to this idea, states that if “men are not shamed out of their present course in commemorating the fact, will cheat out of the principles, and deprive them of benefits, of the revolution they commemorate” (515). This is of course to emphasis that if the needs of the many are not met they will only ever result in desperate and possibly destructive ways to obtain them and are self-invested rightfully to do so (i.e. liberty). However this in itself can lead to the destruction of any development in liberty and desolation. As for example the bloody conclusion in the French Revolution which led in the result of the guillotine, “Rendering the habit of society dangerously invalid” and a “loss of love for liberty”(515). For Burke describes “society” as merely a contract” (521), in which must dissolve interest for selfish pleasure. For if we do not have the implementation of “Pretended Rights” to our general interests. There will be a development of permanent existence and not of temporary development. This will remedy itself the idea of a partnership regarding empathy for one another to resolve issues within the best interest of liberty and basic civil society.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:37:20 +0000
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