Seven items, First, in 1776, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence: “He [the King of England] has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in […]
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Letter to Roger Weightman, on the planned celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Monticello June 24. 26 Respected Sir The kind invitation I receive from you on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the 50th. anniversary of American
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Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman, on the planned celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Monticello June 24. 26 Respected Sir The kind invitation I receive from you on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the 50th. anniversary of
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Dr. David Mayer on his lecture, “Thomas Jefferson and the Holy Cause of Freedom,” about Jefferson’s writings on the nature and importance of liberty. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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I came across this short piece on some connections between Adam Smith, David Hume, and the American founders. Hume writing to Benjamin Franklin in 1762: “I am sure America has sent us many good things; gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, etc., but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters
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Seven categories. Five only in each. Works that I love or learned from or influenced me or that I return to regularly. Biography and AutobiographyAnthony Holden, TchaikovskyRobert Massie, Peter the GreatAdrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented EvolutionistJames Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small [a veterinarian in Yorkshire]Walt Whitman, Song of
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Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. Argumento 9: El individualismo liberal aumenta la
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Kieran Bhattacharya was expelled from the University of Virginia medical school. A journalistic account is here. The university claims his persistent questioning at a panel discussion and his follow-up resistance to the university’s orders violated “the school’s professionalism standards.” Professionalism cuts both ways at a university — both for students and for faculty/administrators — but
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. I am a big fan of C. Bradley Thompson’s America’s Revolutionary Mind. Published in 2019, it is a moral history of the founding era that will stand the test of time. Thompson is a transplanted Canadian who is a Political Science Ph.D. now teaching at Clemson University, South Carolina. Related: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery.
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These books were published in 1776: Thomas Paine, Common Sense Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Adam Smith, On the Wealth of Nations Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie (published in its entirety for first time) David Hume, Autobiography Also in 1776, in Paris Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
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