It is arguable that Conservatives' adversaries have seldom found their way to a true understanding of the politics first elaborated by Edmund Burke; and that Conservatives, for their part, have refused to reduce their politics to a principle. Here the author examines the principles and realities.
Edgar Dawn Ross "Ted" Honderich was a Canadian-born British philosopher, who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London.