For 10 points, name this English author whose Reflections on the Revolution in France were disputed in The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.
This thinker wrote that the progress of history would destroy the tyranny of government in a satire that extended Lord Bolingbroke's opposition of religion to politics. Another work by this author of Vindication of Natural Society examines the four causes of the two title concepts, which are contrasted as that which pleases and that which can compel and destroy. This author of A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of The (*) Sublime and Beautiful argued that governments based on abstractions lead to tyranny and that gradual political reform is preferable to violent revolt in a work inspired by a recent event. For 10 points, name this English author whose Reflections on the Revolution in France were disputed in The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.
This thinker wrote that the progress of history would destroy the tyranny of government in a satire that extended Lord Bolingbroke's opposition of religion to politics.
Edmund {Burke}