CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE O CONSERVADORISMO DE BURKE À LUZ DA SUA OBRA REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE

The paper investigates the thought of Edmund Burke, trying to understand and giving special attention to the conservative philosophy by which the author underlies within his political philosophy. The research here described focuses especially on the analysis and approach present in the author's edifying work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and how these approaches have contributed to spread and generate modern conservatism, relying on its approaches as values, such as tradition, defense of order, hierarchy, communitarianism and opposition to rationalism, for the idea of the people assuming power as a fundamental part of a conservative policy, thus against monarchical absolutism, which went against Burke's thought in the sense that power should be dissolved among all, and decision-making exercised taking into account multi-generational events, thus valuing traditions, so that these important ingredients construct Burke's arguments, which remains present in modern conservative thinking.