Edmund Burke and Reflections on the Revolution in the Congo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2106481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alí A Mazrui (Science Oxford, corresponding author), Ali Al''Amin Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin Mazrui |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-133 |
| Publication date | 1963-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500001584 |
| OpenAlex | W2104134820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
There are at least five ways of treating a political theory. One is to consider it a form of intellectual exercise, pure and simple-an adventure in abstraction to sharpen the mind. Another is to go through it, and through other theories, seeking a personal practical philosophy for oneself. A third is to distil the history out of a political theory-examine what light the theory can throw on the age from which it emerged. A fourth is also to treat the theory as a source of historical data, but not in the sense in which a river may conceivably be a source of some dissolved substance from the silt it carries, but in the sense in which a river may be a source of water. In this latter sense a political theory is not distilled to yield history. It is itself part of the flow of history-part of what Americans sometimes call intellectual history
Abstraction · Adventure · Art history · Economic history · Epistemology · Intellectual history · Political history · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Simple (philosophy) · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |