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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818612703321

Titolo

Thomas Jefferson and philosophy : essays on the philosophical cast of Jefferson's writings / / edited by M. Andrew Holowchak ; contributors James Carpenter [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-8092-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HolowchakMark <1958->

CarpenterJames

Disciplina

973.4/6092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The philosophical trinity of Jefferson's political theory / Garrett Ward Sheldon -- Thomas Jefferson: a lawyer's path to a legal philosophy / Richard E. Dixon -- Individual liberty and political unity in an expanding nation: the axiological primacy of wards in Jefferson's republican schema / M. Andrew Holowchak -- Thomas Jefferson's land ethics / Paul B. Thompson -- Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association: the meaning of the famous "wall of separation" metaphor / Derek H. Davis -- Jefferson in Paris: rewriting the problems of slavery, slaveholding, family, and codependency / William Merkel -- The ultimate defense of liberty: Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of education / James J. Carpenter -- The march of morality: making sense of Jefferson's moral sense / M. Andrew Holowchak -- Thomas Jefferson's architectural and landscape aesthetics: sources and meaning / Richard Guy Wilson.