Monatsarchive: Februar 2019

The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 3, Correspondence and Papers 1780 – 1782

Publiziert am 28. Februar 2019 von Jazzybee

The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 3, Correspondence and Papers 1780 – 1782 – Paul Leicester Ford, Thomas Jefferson

The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such persistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a far deeper and broader principle underlying them than is always recognized. In popular estimation, Jefferson stands as the founder of the Democratic party, and the developer of the theory of State Rights; and on these foundations are based the so called “Jeffersonian principles,” and the respect and acceptance, as well as the criticism and contravention, accorded to them. To meet the need of an edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, that … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 2, Correspondence and Papers 1771 – 1779

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 2, Correspondence and Papers 1771 – 1779 – Paul Leicester Ford, Thomas Jefferson

The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such persistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a far deeper and broader principle underlying them than is always recognized. In popular estimation, Jefferson stands as the founder of the Democratic party, and the developer of the theory of State Rights; and on these foundations are based the so called “Jeffersonian principles,” and the respect and acceptance, as well as the criticism and contravention, accorded to them. To meet the need of an edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, that … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 1, Autobiography , The Anas, Correspondence and Papers 1760 – 1770

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 1, Autobiography , The Anas, Correspondence and Papers 1760 – 1770 – Paul Leicester Ford, Thomas Jefferson

The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such persistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a far deeper and broader principle underlying them than is always recognized. In popular estimation, Jefferson stands as the founder of the Democratic party, and the developer of the theory of State Rights; and on these foundations are based the so called “Jeffersonian principles,” and the respect and acceptance, as well as the criticism and contravention, accorded to them. To meet the need of an edition of the writings … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 6, Correspondence and Papers 1789 – 1792

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 6, Correspondence and Papers 1789 – 1792 – Paul Leicester Ford, Thomas Jefferson

The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such persistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a far deeper and broader principle underlying them than is always recognized. In popular estimation, Jefferson stands as the founder of the Democratic party, and the developer of the theory of State Rights; and on these foundations are based the so called “Jeffersonian principles,” and the respect and acceptance, as well as the criticism and contravention, accorded to them. To meet the need of an edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, that … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 5, Correspondence and Papers 1786 – 1789

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 5, Correspondence and Papers 1786 – 1789 – Paul Leicester Ford, Thomas Jefferson

The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such persistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a far deeper and broader principle underlying them than is always recognized. In popular estimation, Jefferson stands as the founder of the Democratic party, and the developer of the theory of State Rights; and on these foundations are based the so called “Jeffersonian principles,” and the respect and acceptance, as well as the criticism and contravention, accorded to them. To meet the need of an edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, that … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings

Publiziert am 27. Februar 2019 von Jazzybee

Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings – Sir Robert Filmer

It was in 1681, when “Patriarcha” was first published. The work won great and deserved popularity as the ablest justification of the extreme royalist doctrine. Filmer had the acuteness to see that of the two modes of argument, that of relying upon a medley of Scripture texts, forbidding resistance and asserting divine sanction for kingship, and that of claiming that monarchy is in accordance with the teachings of nature, the latter rested upon a far more solid basis. It is always possible to explain away single texts of Scripture. Indeed no one nowadays but knows that, when S. Paul and S. Peter enjoined obedience to established government as a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Publiziert am 27. Februar 2019 von Jazzybee

An Essay on the History of Civil Society – Adam Ferguson

Adam Ferguson was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. “An Essay on the History of Civil Society”, written under the influence of Montesquieu’s “Esprit des Lois”, is an attempt to classify nations according to their salient characteristics, and to trace the conditions of their advance or decline. The first part is occupied with the general characteristics of human nature. Setting aside, as unprofitable, hypotheses as to the emergence of man from the condition of the lower animals, or from a state of warfare waged by every man against every other, Ferguson treats man as from the first a social being. The condition of the savage, as … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 4, Correspondence and Papers 1782 – 1786

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 4, Correspondence and Papers 1782 – 1786 – Paul Leicester Ford, Thomas Jefferson

The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such persistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a far deeper and broader principle underlying them than is always recognized. In popular estimation, Jefferson stands as the founder of the Democratic party, and the developer of the theory of State Rights; and on these foundations are based the so called “Jeffersonian principles,” and the respect and acceptance, as well as the criticism and contravention, accorded to them. To meet the need of an edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, that … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Manual of a Christian Knight

Publiziert am 26. Februar 2019 von Jazzybee

Manual of a Christian Knight – Desiderius Erasmus

We get some sense of things which were moving deeply in Erasmus’ life from his “Manual of a Christian Knight.” We find here a characteristic criticism of religious forms taking the place of religious substance. We find a tremendous emphasis upon the intelligence which in no way lessens the emphasis on vital piety. Prayer and knowledge are to work together in the life of the Christian knight. The inner is to give force and power to the outer. The outer is never to take the place of the inner. The warfare and the weapons and the true wisdom of the Christian are discussed. There is many a pithy judgment: “The way to … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Praise of Folly

Publiziert am 26. Februar 2019 von Jazzybee

The Praise of Folly – Desiderius Erasmus

Erasmus reached England after a stay in Italy early in the summer of 1510. Soon afterwards, in Thomas More’s house at Bucklersbury, he rapidly wrote his famous satire, the Encomium Moriae, or “Praise of Folly,” in which Folly celebrates her own praises as the great source of human pleasures. He had been meditating this piece on the long journey from Rome; it is a kaleidoscope of his experiences in Italy, and of earlier memories. As to the title, Moria, the Greek word for “folly,” was a playful allusion, of course, to the name of his wise and witty host. This “Praise of Folly” is a satire, not only in the modern but in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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