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Stanlis, Peter James was born on August 12, 1919 in Newark. Son of James Ignatius and Annelle (Kliever) Stanlis.
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (The Library of Conservative Thought)
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (Library of Conservative Thought)
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Two centuries after Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France, his name and reputation stand alongside Locke, Montesquieu, and Hume - the other still-cited grand political thinkers of the eighteenth century. For those great nations that have fallen into what Burke called "the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion and unavailing sorrow," the work of Burke supplies that sense of order, justice and freedom the present age seems to require. This volume by Peter Stanlis has grown out of almost four decades of studying Burke. Today, Professor Stanlis is called by Russell Kirk "the leading American authority on the political thought of the great conservative reformer." The book is divided into three categories: Burke on law and politics; Burke's criticism of Enlightenment rationalism and sensibility; and Burke's theory of revolution and critique of the English revolution of 1688. Stanlis' reasons' for linking Burke to the English Revolution rather than the later, and admittedly more decisive American and French Revolutions of his own time, is that for Burke, that earlier event was the normative pivot for judging how to make important changes in civil society. Indeed, even in his writings on the contemporary revolutions of his time,. Stanlis reminds us that Burke interpreted revolutionary events in France and Americas through the prism of the bloodless Revolution of 1688.
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Edmund Burke and the Natural Law (Library of Conservative Thought)
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Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in natural law. The basic philosophies of the opposition--the rationalism of the philosophes, the utilitarianism of Bentham, the materialism of Marx--appear to have made prior philosophies irrelevant. Yet these newer philosophies themselves have been overtaken by disillusionment born of conflicts between "might" and "right." Many thoughtful people who were loyal to secular belief have become dissatisfied with the lack of normative principles and have turned once more to natural law. This first book-length study of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958, explores this intellectual giant's relationship to, and belief in, the natural law. It has long been thought that Edmund Burke was an enemy of the natural law, and was a proponent of conservative utilitarianism. Peter J. Stanlis shows that, on the contrary, Burke was one of the most eloquent and profound defenders of natural law morality and politics in Western civilization. A philosopher in the classical tradition of Aristotle and Cicero, and in the Scholastic tradition of Aquinas, Burke appealed to natural law in the political problems he encountered in American, Irish, Indian, and British affairs, and in reaction to the French Revolution. This book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, and will be mandatory reading for students of philosophy, political science, law, and history.
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Robert Frost: The Individual and Society
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THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL
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The Relevance of Edmund Burke
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Selected Writings and Speeches (Edmund Burke)
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Book by Burke, Edmund, Stanlis, Peter J.
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Edmund Burke Selected Writings and Speeches
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches by Stanlis, Peter J. (2006) Paperback
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (Library of Conservative Thought) by Peter Stanlis (1991) Hardcover
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Peter James Stanlis
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Bachelor, Middlebury (Vermont) College, 1942. Master of Arts, Bread Loaf Graduate School English, Ripton, Vermont, 1944. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1951.
Career
Assistant professor English Ithaca (New York ) College, 1945-1946. Instructor English University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1946-1948, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1948-1952. Assistant professor University Detroit, 1952-1956, associate professor, 1956-1960, professor English, 1960-1968, Rockford (Illinois) College, 1968-1974, distinguished professor humanities, 1974-1987, chairman department English, 1968-1974.
Guest professor Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English, 1961, 62. Guest professor, lecturer Salzburg (Austria) University, 1963, Heidelberg (Germany) University, 1974, St. Andrews (Scotland) University, 1976, Uppsala (Sweden) University, 1982, other colleges universities. Member academy board National Humanities Institute, since 1987.
Researcher, writer Southeastern Michigan Metropolitan Community Research Corporation, 1961-1962. Member Conference on British Studies, 1961-1969, Edmund Burke Memorial Foundation, 1963-1970.
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book
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (Library of Conservative Thought)
( Two centuries after Edmund Burke published his Reflecti...)
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Edmund Burke and the Natural Law (Library of Conservative Thought)
( Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient i...)
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Robert Frost: The Individual and Society
(THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL)
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Selected Writings and Speeches (Edmund Burke)
(Book by Burke, Edmund, Stanlis, Peter J.)
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The Relevance of Edmund Burke
(GOOD-PLUS HARDBACK-WITH-DUSTJACKET)
- Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (The Library of Conservative Thought)
- Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
- Edmund Burke Selected Writings and Speeches
- Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches by Stanlis, Peter J. (2006) Paperback
- Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (Library of Conservative Thought) by Peter Stanlis (1991) Hardcover
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (Library of Conservative Thought)
Membership
City councilman City of Trenton, Michigan, 1955-1961, member City Charter Commission, 1957. Member Constitutional Revision Commission, State Michigan, 1960-1961. Member National Council Humanities, 1982-1988.
With United States Army Air Force, 1942-1943. Member American Society 18th Century Studies (co-founder, executive board 1970-1973, national treasurer 1970-1973, president midwestern branch 1971-1972), Midwestern American Society 18th Century Studies (president 1971-1972), Johnson Society Great Lakes Region (president 1964-1965), Philadelphia Society, Mont Pelerin Society.
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Married Alma Nielsen, August 15, 1945 (divorced February 1969). Children: Ingrid Alma, Eleanor Marie. Married Eleanor Thomas, July 26, 1971.
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Roman Catholic
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1942
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1951
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1945 - 1946
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1946 - 1948
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1948 - 1952
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1968 - 1974
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Recipient Robert Frost fellowship Breat Loaf School English, 1940, Horace H. Rackham fellow University Michigan, fellowships University Detroit, 1954-1955, Newberry Library., 1955, Huntington Library., 1969, British Academy, 1978, research grants Relm Foundation and Earhart Foundation, 1955-1967, Ford Foundation, 1961, Mellon Foundation, 1964, American Philosophical Society, 1965, 66, Major Hopwood writing award for nonfiction, 1948. British Academy fellowship.Recipient Robert Frost fellowship Breat Loaf School English, 1940, Horace H. Rackham fellow University Michigan, fellowships University Detroit, 1954-1955, Newberry Library., 1955, Huntington Library., 1969, British Academy, 1978, research grants Relm Foundation and Earhart Foundation, 1955-1967, Ford Foundation, 1961, Mellon Foundation, 1964, American Philosophical Society, 1965, 66, Major Hopwood writing award for nonfiction, 1948. British Academy fellowship.