著者

岸本 広司

出版者

岐阜聖徳学園大学

雑誌

聖徳学園岐阜教育大学紀要 (ISSN:09160175)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, pp.1-13, 1988-03-31

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Edmund Burke had earned some reputation as a man of letters, before committing himself to politics around 1765. This phase of his life has been eclipsed by the brilliance of his career as a politician, but some of that brilliance is consequence of his having practiced literature before his pursuit of politics. In this paper, I proposed to affirm the close relationship between Burke's aesthetics and his political thought through examination of Part V of A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), which is generally regarded as the least political of all his works.