The Revolution Controversy: Prompts for Thursday

Your reading for Thursday is drawn from what is often called the "war of pamphlets," a debate over the French Revolution that became particularly heated after the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). For Thursday, please respond to one of the three prompts below. Please give your response a unique title ("Response to #2" isn't unique). You do not need to retype the question as part of your response. It will be obvious to the rest of us which prompt you are responding to.

1. Which of the arguments for or against the French revolution did you find most persuasive? Please be specific about this by briefly summarizing the particular argument and then describing your response to it (the majority of your post should consist of your response, not your summary).

2. Which of the arguments for or against the French revolution did you find least persuasive? As above, please be specific about this by briefly summarizing the particular argument and then describing your response to it (the majority of your post should consist of your response, not your summary).

3. Have we seen a re-emergence of any of these arguments, or similar arguments, in more recent history? I don't mean that these arguments about the French Revolution have re-emerged. Rather, my intent in asking this question is to get you to consider the rhetoric of these writers and consider whether similar rhetoric has been used/is being used in debates surrounding more contemporary issues.

Thanks. See you on Thursday.