Thomas Jefferson: Moralist

Thomas Jefferson: Moralist

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M. Andrew Holowchak, Holowchak
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
EAN: 9781476628172
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Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a consummate immoralist. Yet he had a keen interest in morality and most of his reading--when he was not immersed in politics--was for moral study. Jefferson once told his physician, Vine Utley, that he seldom went to sleep without first reading something morally inspiring. Some Jefferson scholars consider him at best a moral dilettante with incoherent views. Others see him as a Stoic, interested in virtue as measured by both intentions and outcomes, who in later life became an Epicurean, weighing pleasure versus ends. Drawing on a careful reading of his writings and an examination of his known readings on morality, this study argues that Jefferson developed early a consistent moral sense--Stoical in essence and focused on his own moral improvement--and maintained it throughout his life.
EAN 9781476628172
ISBN 1476628173
Binding Ebook
Publisher McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date March 22, 2017
Pages 268
Language English
Country United States
Authors M. Andrew Holowchak, Holowchak