Origins of the British Conservative Thought before Edmund Burke

Student: Anisimova Sofya

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2016

This paper explores the question of the sources of the British political thought. In aim to find them I compared the works of three major anglican theologists of XVI-XVII century: Joseph Butler, William Laud, Richard Hooker. I suggest that they formed a certain tradition of Anglican political thought that anticipated Edmund Burke and may be considered as the source of the modern conservatism as ideology.

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