Concept
Order of the British Empire
Overview
British order of chivalry established in 1917
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While he was thus extending his cares to the common people, to the merchants, and to the traveller, he thought proper to make an addition to the pomp and splendour of his own court; for though he hated pomp or show in his own person, he thought it necessary in those about him; he therefore instituted the order of St. Andrew,[55] in imitation of the several orders with which all the courts of Europe abound. Golowin…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
Close in meaning to Order of the British Empire; the term itself is not named.
An Elysée paper published an order, issued during the month of May, ostensibly to the First Military Division, and, hence, proceeding from Changarnier, wherein the officers were recommended, in case of an uprising, to give no quarter to the traitors in their own ranks, to shoot them down on the spot, and to refuse troops to the National Assembly, should it make a requisition for such. On January 3, 1851, the Cabinet…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Close in meaning to Order of the British Empire; the term itself is not named.
In a sense somewhat more enlarged, Order means the preservation of peace by the cessation of private violence. Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities. But in this larger use of the term, as well as…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
Close in meaning to Order of the British Empire; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Order of the British Empire
- Gilbert Ryle
- Isaiah Berlin
- John Finnis
- A. C. Grayling
- J. L. Austin
- C. S. Lewis
- Iris Murdoch
- Geoffrey Warnock
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Place in the tradition
Part of A. C. Grayling.
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