Jefferson's Declaration of Independence : Origins, Philosophy, and Theology

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Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration of Independence -- and its implications -- by going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas: Bolingbroke, Kames, Reid, and Locke. He concludes that the Declaration must be read as an attack on two claims of absolute authority: that of govern...

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Autor principal: Jayne, Allen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Political and social views.
États-Unis. > Declaration of Independence.
United States. > Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Independence (United States)
Political science.
Political and social views.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Political science > United States > History > 18th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration of Independence -- and its implications -- by going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas: Bolingbroke, Kames, Reid, and Locke. He concludes 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 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780813148366

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