バーク『フランス革命の省察』(99)人間の権利の二重基準
Burke, and conservatives generally, have seen that almost all of the will to resist, that is commonly claimed to result from inner knowledge of natural rights or from inner instincts to freedom, results instead from prejudices slowly built up historically in a people’s minds: prejudices about religion, property, national autonomy and long-accustomed roles in the social order. These, not abstract rights, are the motive powers in the struggles of peoples for freedom which we honor. -- Robert Nisbet, Conservatism : Prejudice and Reason (バークや保守派は一般に、自然権についての内的知識や、自由への内的直観から生じると一般に主張される抵抗の意志の殆どすべてが、むしろ人々の心の中で歴史的にゆっくりと蓄積された先入見、すなわち、宗教、財産、国民自治、社会秩序における長年の習慣的役割に関する先入見から生まれたものであることが分かっていたのである。抽象的な権利ではないこの先入見が、私達が敬意を払う自由を求める人々の闘いの原動力なのです)―ニスベット『保守主義』 ☆ ☆ ☆ In what chapter of your code of the rights of men are they able to read that it is a part of the rights of men to have their commerce monopolized and restrained for the benefit of others? As the colonists rise on you, the negroes rise on...