Gli eguali e i diversi. Diritto, manners e ordine politico in Edmund Burke

The volume offers an analysis of the legal and philosophical thought of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), with peculiar reference to his view of equality, opposed to the concept derived from the Enlightenment and embodied in the Déclaration (1789). Burke’s perspective is based, on the one side, on the principle of authority and, on the other side, it aims at understanding the complexity, plurality and “great diversity” which ground the social and institutional order.
Through this analysis, the reflection will critically shed a light on the relationships between law and morals, gradualism and perfectibility, change and social conservation, manners and “order” in the work of an author extremely controversial and useful to understand recurring issues in the history of modern and contemporary legal and philosophical thought.