Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Origins, Philosophy, and TheologyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1998 - 245 pages This is an original, persuasive, and important study that puts the new theology of Locke and Jefferson in the context of traditional Judeo-Christian thought while illuminating the points of difference between the two. -- Garrett Ward Sheldon Two hundred twenty years after the first Continental Congress approved the American Declaration of Independence, its principal author, Thomas Jefferson, is more and more frequently labeled radical. His words are even used to validate the agendas of today's right-wing militias. But his unorthodox religious views, which permeate the Declaration, are most deserving of the appellation. Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration -- and its implications -- by going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas. Jayne emphasizes several sources, including Bollingbroke, Kames, and Reid, by giving a detailed examination of portions of their writings in relation to the better-known contributions of Locke. His conclusion is that the Declaration must be read as an attack on two claims of absolute authority: that of government over its subjects and of religion over the minds of men. Today's world is far more secular than Jefferson's, and the importance of philosophical theology in eighteenth-century critical thought must be recognized in order to understand fully and completely the Declaration's implications. Jayne addresses this need by putting concerns about religion back into the discussion. Sure to be controversial, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence will contribute substantially to the contentious, ongoing debate -- led by such scholars as Garry Wills and John Patrick Diggins -- concerning Jefferson's intentions and sources when writingthe Declaration of Independence. |
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... happiness but also the changing circumstances that altered objects of pleasure and love to those of pain and hate . Because of changing cir- cumstances , what gave people happiness and what they wanted to make them happy were in a state ...
... happiness but also the changing circumstances that altered objects of pleasure and love to those of pain and hate . Because of changing cir- cumstances , what gave people happiness and what they wanted to make them happy were in a state ...
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... happiness than the pursuit of trifles . The absence of that greater or remote good would give rise to a new uneasiness in the mind , which would determine the will to prefer new actions conducive to attaining the greater remote good ...
... happiness than the pursuit of trifles . The absence of that greater or remote good would give rise to a new uneasiness in the mind , which would determine the will to prefer new actions conducive to attaining the greater remote good ...
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... happiness in life and lived according that determination . A similar expression of Jefferson's commitment to the Lockean pur- suit of maximal happiness is found in Notes on the State of Virginia , where he commented on the curriculum ...
... happiness in life and lived according that determination . A similar expression of Jefferson's commitment to the Lockean pur- suit of maximal happiness is found in Notes on the State of Virginia , where he commented on the curriculum ...
Table des matières
The Theological Context | 9 |
Bolingbroke and the Enlightenment | 19 |
Locke and the Declaration | 41 |
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