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Tag Archives: John Locke
The Newton Letter, by John Banville
Sir – Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me with woemen & by other means I was so much affected with it as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live I answered twere … Continue reading
The Books: “Thomas Jefferson : A Life” (Willard Sterne Randall)
Next Daily Excerpt: Next book in my American history section is Thomas Jefferson: A Life by Willard Sterne Randall Now I like Willard Sterne Randall’s books – I read his one on Hamilton, his one on Washington, and this enormous … Continue reading
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Tagged John Locke, politics, Thomas Jefferson, US history, war
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The Books: “Two Treatises of Government” (John Locke)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next book in my politics/philosophy section is: Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke. I came to John Locke obliquely. I figured I needed to read the works of the guy who had inspired … Continue reading
Psychic Book Gifts
Today, I received (just now) a gift of 2 books from one of you people out there. (Unfortunately, because of screen names, etc., I don’t know who my benefactor is!! So I am going public with my thank you note.) … Continue reading
Loving Our Neighbors
To love our neighbor as ourself is such a fundamental truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. — John Locke
Jefferson and Locke
An excerpt from Paul Johnson’s sweeping A History of the American People: [Thomas Jefferson’s] first hero was his fellow-Virginian Patrick Henry, who seemed to be everything Jefferson was not: a firebrand, a man of extremes, a rabble-rouser, and an unreflective … Continue reading
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Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self-evident”
Excerpt from David McCullough’s John Adams [Jefferson] worked rapidly [on writing the Declaration of Independence] and, to judge by surviving drafts, with a sure command of his material. He had none of his books with him, nor needed any, he … Continue reading
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Tagged David McCullough, Declaration of Independence, John Adams, John Locke, politics, Thomas Jefferson, war
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On Thomas Jefferson: Setting Up the Ideological Battle
The following lengthy excerpt, on Thomas Jefferson, and the writing of the Declaration of Independence, comes from Paul Johnson’s book A History of the American People (a spectacular read). Read the excerpt, when you have time. It goes into Jefferson’s … Continue reading
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