Revolution or Reform? Burke vs. Paine on the French Revolution | Britain in the Age of Revolutions

[@RavenclawFtW3295]

Burke was right because he recognized and acknowledged the dark side to human nature that Thomas Paine did not.

[@videogamecin]

Burke was wrong because he insisted on the idea that the natural rights of individuals against mob/state/church violence and the equality of genders were lost causes, that tradition was inherently wise and respectworthy, that hereditary offices in the government were fair. Tom Paine may have been wrong to put his unconditionally optimistic faith in the wrong revolution/revolutionaries or the wrong way of doing revolutions. But Burke saw no fault, no injustice, in the religious/monarchical/aristocratic status quo.

[@1DJDeeZe]

John Stuart Mill, who delivered an 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews and stated: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”

[@mikexhotmail]

Sadly, but true. Let's all of us join the frontline then.

[@bryanpatrickmchugh]

Burke was right.

[@AhmedT92]

Hello, anyone know what is the program/software used to make this video? The movement of words/images? I would greatly appreciate the information. Thanks a bunch beforehand.

[@HistoryHub]

Adobe After Effects, I believe.

[@walterbray81]

The narrator conveyed a very good point, But it's correspondent between Burke & Payne that conceive as it is & maybe as followed concisively but we all entitled to whats is fair, as i look onwards to my future & greater understanding of Payne works, I may need to read Burke's. grrr ahhh but well comprised Mr. Narrator & i'm Subscribed

[@silbannacusofoxyrhynchus6096]

The French Revolution was the terror. The British and American way was much better. However, Payne made valuable contributions.

[@megasalexander927]

Oligarchy in the US disproves your opinion.

[@JK-gu3tl]

American revolution was for naught b/c they ditched Articles of Confederation for a worse document. Nowadays, USA may as well rejoin UK.

[@Atilla_the_Fun]

Anglo propaganda

[@walterbray81]

Yepp

[@Pan_Z]

@Megas Alexander The US fell into a oligarchic-democratic mess because it outright abandoned the Republican aspirations of her Founding Fathers. The US Constitution has been little more than words on paper for over a hundred years.

[@01olracman]

Sums up the political situation in the United States. Liberal respond to emotions, conservatives respond to facts

[@ReaXTutorials]

Thomas Paine was right.

[@ReaXTutorials]

Thomas Paine was right.

[@RavenclawFtW3295]

No. He was not. Thomas Paine had a romantic view of human nature in the absence of civilization.

[@user-zk5lj5uu1u]

He was left

[@mikexhotmail]

@@user-zk5lj5uu1u Nice one ^_^

[@vroomvroombrudda]

i w

[@videogamecin]

@@RavenclawFtW3295 Human nature isn't intrinsically evil and the status quo is seldom civilized.