Edmund Burke’s critique of natural rights and social contract

MPSE-003: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx)

Course Code: MPSE-003

Assignment Code: ASST/MPSE-003//2016-17

Total Marks: 100

(b) Edmund Burke’s critique of natural rights and social contract.

Ans. Critique of Natural Rights and Social Contract: Burke opposes to the doctrine of natural rights, yet he takes over the concept of the social contract and attaches to it divine sanction. But his support of the proposals for relaxing the restrictions on the trade of Ireland with Great Britain, and for alleviating the laws against Catholics, cost him the seat at Bristol (1780), and from that time until 1794 he represented Malton. When the disasters of the American War brought Lord North’s government to a close, Burke was paymaster of the forces under Rockingham (1782) and also under Portland (1783), After the fall of the Whig ministry in1783, Burke was never again in office. In 1788, he opened the trial of Warren Hastings by the speech which will always rank among the masterpieces of English eloquence.

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