Showing posts with label Whiggism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whiggism. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Free Progressivism maybe?
More from "A New Name for an Old Whig", by Samuel Gregg:
It is perhaps improbable that a single phrase that captures all the ideals and transcends all the difficulties outlined above will ever be coined. After all, we are seeking an expression which, in Hayek’s words, ‘[pieces] together the broken fragments of a tradition’81 that encapsulates Burke’s political reflections, Smith’s economics, Tocqueville’s constitutionalism, Hume’s scepticism, Ferguson’s evolutionism, and Acton’s view of history.
It is perhaps improbable that a single phrase that captures all the ideals and transcends all the difficulties outlined above will ever be coined. After all, we are seeking an expression which, in Hayek’s words, ‘[pieces] together the broken fragments of a tradition’81 that encapsulates Burke’s political reflections, Smith’s economics, Tocqueville’s constitutionalism, Hume’s scepticism, Ferguson’s evolutionism, and Acton’s view of history.
For Shame
I am ashamed to admit that I haven't read, though I own, the appropriate essays by Burke and Acton on Whiggism.
Whiggarchy! Isonomy! Fraternity!
Excuse me! Just Googling myself here.
Another obligatory explanation of the term "Old Whig". Here's more than you wanted to know.
An exerpt:
The designation Old Whig was first coined by Edmund Burke in his An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. The canon to which Burke ascribed—the doctrine of the ‘ancient Whigs’6—was partly a product of the 17th century political conflict between Crown and Commons that culminated in England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688. United by a horror of arbitrary power, the Whigs, according to John Locke, fought for freedom of men under government . . . to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society . . . and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man [as well as the principle that] whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth is bound to govern by established laws promulgated and made known to the people and not by extemporary decrees.
Another obligatory explanation of the term "Old Whig". Here's more than you wanted to know.
An exerpt:
The designation Old Whig was first coined by Edmund Burke in his An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. The canon to which Burke ascribed—the doctrine of the ‘ancient Whigs’6—was partly a product of the 17th century political conflict between Crown and Commons that culminated in England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688. United by a horror of arbitrary power, the Whigs, according to John Locke, fought for freedom of men under government . . . to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society . . . and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man [as well as the principle that] whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth is bound to govern by established laws promulgated and made known to the people and not by extemporary decrees.
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