 | Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...democratic."2 Das Problem, das Burke damit lösen will, hat er in den Reflections so ausgedrückt: "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom."3 Sich mit Veränderungen auseinanderzusetzen, ist für den Staatsmann unausweichlich, doch... | |
 | Thomas Allan Scott - History - 1995 - 288 pages
...be served by a strong and independent governor, working with a strong and independent legislature. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right to expect that these wants will be provided by this wisdom. The test of a government is not how popular... | |
 | Francis Canavan - Business & Economics - 1995 - 212 pages
...There is an apparent difficulty in reconciling this doctrine with Burke's statement in the Reflections: "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants [ie, needs]. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom" (Works 5: 122-123).... | |
 | Jimmy Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...be served by a strong and independent governor, working with a strong and independent legislature. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have a right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. The test of a government... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - Philosophy - 1998 - 337 pages
...bring the people to concur in any plan of salutary or necessary reformation (44-45). [Burke argued:] Government is a contrivance of human wisdom, to provide...be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is...a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals... | |
 | James W. Vice - History - 1998 - 304 pages
...virtue and in all perfection" (R: 111). Government exists as our device to control our own diversity; "government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.... Among these wants is tobe reckoned the want. ..of the sufficient restraint upon their passions" (R:... | |
 | Larry E. Tise - History - 1998 - 690 pages
...state. 2. Government. If the rights of man ultimately derive from a civil constitution. then men's government "is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. " including protection of those rights deemed appropriate in a particular society. Sometimes rights... | |
 | David Williams - History - 1999 - 534 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among those wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their... | |
 | Dan E. Beauchamp, Bonnie Steinbock - Medical - 1999 - 399 pages
...Perhaps Burke came closest to describing the fundamental right that is at stake here when he wrote: 'Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.' It only has to be said that the wisdom in question is the wisdom not of a ruling class, as Burke seems... | |
 | Paul Roazen - Psychology - 372 pages
...called attention to the value of social restraints in delivering us from the slavery of our passions. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. . . . Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint... | |
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
