 | R. T. Allen - 294 Seiten
...results in acting by rule because of an attitude that prejudges the situation as one of a given type: "Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his... | |
 | Nicholas M. Williams - 1998 - 280 Seiten
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtues his habit, and not a series of... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 Seiten
...glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 1865:331. n Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. 32 BURKE, KENNETH Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Eger - 2001 - 348 Seiten
...and therefore insulated against dehumanising Jacobinical principles, by their adherence to prejudice: Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his... | |
 | Robert A. Nisbet - 138 Seiten
...experience as well as pure logic. Prejudice has its own intrinsic wisdom, one that is anterior to intellect. Prejudice 'is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved.' For Burke prejudice is an epitomization, in the individual mind,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2001 - 502 Seiten
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...nations and of ages." Consideration of time, in Burke, leads one to prefer prejudice to rationality. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision; skeptical, puzzled and unresolved.'2 Not reason, but prejudice gives closure in Burke's view. "Prejudice... | |
 | J. Robert Barth - 2003 - 180 Seiten
...on, "lies precisely in the advantage it offered in making critical choices" (199). In Burke's words: "Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, unresolved" (quoted by Chandler, 199). of book 7), it was this very experience... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 Seiten
...and looked favorably on "prejudice." As Burke put it in his Reflections on the Revolution in France: n-Paul skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit" (CM 17). By the word... | |
 | Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - 2004 - 500 Seiten
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of... | |
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Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's... 
