Status Updates From Natural Right and History (...

Read chapters 1, 2 and 4 so far! I actually quite like it, although it is a bit dry at times.

The more times I read this, the more I become convinced that it’s actually the most important work of philosophy in at least the past four hundred years.

(...) The quarrel between the ancients and the moderns concerns, eventually, and perhaps even from the beginning, the status of "individuality." Burke himself was still too deeply imbued with the spirit of "sound antiquity" to allow concern for individuality to overpower his concern for virtue.