This thinker, who satirized Lord Bolingbroke in A Vindication of Natural Society, led the prosecution in the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings.
This thinker's first publication was a satirical imitation of the style of an anti-religious contemporary, which was so accurate that many reviewers did not realize it was satire. He influenced Joseph de Maistre, who is often considered his French equivalent. This thinker, who satirized Lord Bolingbroke in A Vindication of Natural Society, led the prosecution in the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings. His most famous work was attacked in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Man and Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and predicted that the title conflict would end badly because it was based on abstract principles which didn't take into account society's complexities. For 10 points, name this conservative political philosopher who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France.
This thinker's first publication was a satirical imitation of the style of an anti-religious contemporary, which was so accurate that many reviewers did not realize it was satire.
Edmund Burke