Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries by Whelan Frederick G

Author:Whelan, Frederick G. [Frederick G. Whelan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317588429
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Earlier, during the American crisis, Burke argued in a similar vein: “If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fulfill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, . . . we ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us.”50 Finally and more generally, Burke asserts:

Duties are not voluntary. Duty and will are even contradictory terms. . . . Much the strongest moral obligations are such as were never the results of our option. . . . [The] author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence; and that having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactick, not according to our will, but according to his, he has, in and by that disposition, virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us. We have obligations to mankind at large, which are not in consequence of any special voluntary pact. They arise from the relation of man to man, and the relation of man to God, which relations are not matters of choice.51

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