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Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue /
Benjamin Franklin's writings on politics are voluminous, and his own politics are well known, yet scholars debate - often fiercely - whether he had a political philosophy and, if so, what it was. Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue is a study of Franklin's political and...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2017.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Liberty and necessity -- Truth and usefulness -- Articles of belief and acts of religion -- On the providence of God in the government of the world -- The science of virtue -- Self-examination -- The virtues of a free people -- Political principles -- Political theory -- Statesmanship -- Conclusion : Franklin and Socrates -- Appendix : New attributions to the Franklin canon. | |
| 520 | |a Benjamin Franklin's writings on politics are voluminous, and his own politics are well known, yet scholars debate - often fiercely - whether he had a political philosophy and, if so, what it was. Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue is a study of Franklin's political and philosophical writings, tracing the development of his political thought and elucidating the political philosophy he came to embrace and put into practice. Kevin Slack argues that Franklin, despite his reputation as a wit and clever politician, examined the nature of politics, virtue, and morality more deeply than any scholar has given him credit for. Franklin, as Slack demonstrates, rejected metaphysics during a period of youthful skepticism, adopting radical skepticism, but later abandoned that view for a third alternative, Shaftesbury's common-sense philosophy. Engaging in a rigorous critique of religious and political authorities, Franklin rejected all authoritative claims but that of a reason, which he used to investigate the nature of justice, or natural right. Slack shows here that Franklin was a thinker in the tradition of Socrates, and thus a political philosopher in the truest and highest sense. -- from back cover. | ||
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