---
title: "Edmund Burke"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Edmund Burke"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Richard Price","Reflections on the Revolution in France","Revolution Controversy","conservatism (political philosophy)","French Revolution"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
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Irish-born statesman, political philosopher, and member of the British Parliament (1729–1797), whose *Reflections on the Revolution in France* (1790) is the founding text of modern conservatism. Matters to this vault as the other half of a pairing it has tracked since 2026-07-09: [[entity-richard-price|Richard Price]], the dissenting minister whose 1789 sermon "A Discourse on the Love of Our Country" Burke's *Reflections* names, quotes by page number, and rebuts at length — the direct engagement is confirmed against both primary texts in [[claim-burke-attacks-price-by-page-cited-verbatim-quotation]].

## References

- [[claim-price-1789-sermon-provoked-burke-reflections]]
- [[claim-burke-attacks-price-by-page-cited-verbatim-quotation]]
- [[claim-burke-reading-printed-sermon-prompted-reflections]]
- [[claim-price-1789-discourse-celebrates-french-revolution-as-continuation-of-1688-and-america]]
- [[observation-richard-price-anchors-actuarial-and-political-philosophy-lineages]]