John Locke’s vision of individual rights, rights of rebellion, and the right to appropriate nature with
labour square with the Edmund Burke’s reaction to the revolutionary upheavals in 18th century
France, his opinions on the American Revolution, his attitude towards tradition, common sense, and
his wariness of philosophical systems?
John Locke’s and Edmund Burke’s ideologies
John Lock was a rights of the man’s advocate, a form of the devoted and enlightened thinker who has
a very huge influence on the libertarians and the liberalism. Edmund Burke was very conservative
Whig and an opponent of the French Revolution. Both of the two thinkers tend to share various
thoughts but they tend to arrive at severely different ends or the conclusions. John Locke with all of
his enlightened sensibilities shall be crowned most influential. Even for Burke’s valuable mind and
ideas was too uninspiring to lead a nation’s spirit. Burke was concerned with the status quo. Locke
had posthumously gathered the minds of white land owning men all over the colonies and sparked
an empire’s government and its history
John Locke’s liberalism and Edmund Burke’s conservatism
With the Reflections on the French Revolution book, which was published at
1790, Burke generally criticized the idea of The Enlightenment and French
Revolution which emanated with The Age of Enlightenment and he strongly
emphasized that events destroy the basic values like the morality, religion and
family structure, which they are considered to be keeping the society together
and precipitated the form of the terrorism and anarchy. Also Burke has explained
The Enlightenment as a movement that alienates the human mind. The
conservatism is taken to be a form of the religiosity by several individuals all
over the world.
Liberalism is a form of the ideology that takes on the liberty to be a first form of
the political value, belief and the politics tradition in the importance of the
equality. John Lock is considered as the father of Liberalism. According to John
Lock, the central authority for punishing the errands in the society must be there.
For this reason, he defended the idea that there must be a liberal form of
government.
Conservatism and the Liberalism always appear as two form of the opposite
poles. The two ideologies differ in the culture, economy, same sex marriage,
abortion and the affirmative action, death penalty, environment and the religion.
Between the liberals and the conservatives’ ideologies, when the moor point is
religion, the two sides have a total divergent in the opinions. The religious
conservatives defend that their religion rules should be considered effective in
the state government and the government ought not to impede with a form of
the religious freedom, but as per the liberal’s ideas, the religious expressions do
not have any place in the government and the religious should not interfere the
government in anyway. Additionally, the religious conservatives defend that the
religious symbols can both be in government and the public spaces but the
liberals are against this idea by all means.
Burke and Locke on the Ideologies