Reflections on the "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
Burke would seem ludicrous if he made his arguments in the context of the primitive Incan society, with its murderous religious ritual, or that of backward India when it was still under the throes of the Thuggee and the Sati (the Thuggee were a cult that practiced murder as a sign of devotion to Shiva, and the Sati is the Indian tradition of burning a man's widow to death along with his corpse). It is only because of the fact that he defends THE WESTERN tradition that his arguments possess plausibility (or truth?). That said, I sense a profound relationship to Hayek, which I am not yet fully able to articulate, in certain respects but also to social constructivism---the former good, the latter bad.