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Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love /
"This carefully argued work defends Lincoln's understanding of charity as essential to democracy while emphasizing the difficulty of fusing this ethic with the desire to spread democracy to people who do not share America's Christian heritage. In considering the prospect of America�...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The demanding politics of charity
- The concept of charity before Lincoln
- "With charity for all" : Lincoln raises the sights
- Charity and "we, the people"
- Natural right, charity, and political realism
- Charity and chosenness
- Conclusion : the future past of a charitable politics.