They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Burke criticizes the French Revolutionaries for systemizing their destructive chaos into a formal document.
- In plain terms
- They turned disorder into a structured guide called Rights of Man.
- What can you take from it?
- Ideologies can formalize chaos as much as order.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can disorder ever be truly systematic?
Another view
Burke may be overstating the structural nature of the Rights of Man.
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