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Title: Freedom and Authority: Burke and Sartre in Dialogue (Edmund Burke, Jean-Paul Sartre)
Author : Modern Age
Release Date : January 22, 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 202 KB

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BURKE: In an earlier dialogue we spoke of "Tradition and Radical Individualism." Of course, M. Sartre, you are nothing if not the philosopher of freedom. All of which is most perplexing when we discover in your later thought your flirtation with Marxism. In light of your own "Itinerary of Thought" it might serve us well, and those still confined to the world, to reflect on freedom and its natural correlate, authority. SARTRE: I welcome the continuation of our dialogue, despite the natural discomfort I have in residing in the hereafter, which I did not anticipate, with a counterrevolutionary such as yourself. Nonetheless, I welcome the chance not only to discuss my own view of freedom, but also to dispel the necessity of "authority" within human relations. For myself, the introduction of authority is the introduction of domination and oppression. Rather, I resolutely call for the "end of authority" and the recovery of freedom within the social context of egalitarianism, through which all hierarchies are to be eliminated in order that persons may indeed flourish. In order to insure a proper dialogue, your own thought seems rife with paradox. On the one hand, you spent a lifetime fighting tyranny where others saw none--I think of your prosecution of Warren Hastings--and you were the enemy of despotism. At the same time, recoiling in your older age from the truest expression of freedom within the radical democratic movements h eralded by the French Revolution, you made a volte-face and hid behind the tyranny of George III's monarchy. And yet you had the temerity to declare in your Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol that "Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery." No wonder that you were charged with inconsistency even in your own day.