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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jayne, Allen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780813148366

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