Jefferson's Unheavenly City
A Bicentennial Look
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2794458 |
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| Authors | Joyotpaul Chaudhuri (University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 397-410 |
| Publication date | 1975-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1975.tb01202.x |
| OpenAlex | W2002776787 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The opportunity provided by the American Bicentennial for a re-examination of our political values is also an opportunity for a closer look at the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Although Jefferson has been placed, with John Locke, in a "heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers" who sought new defenses on behalf of medieval spiritualism and divine law, the present essay contends that Jefferson's epistemological commitments differed from Locke's, and that Jefferson's political theory was far more "modern" than Locke's with respect to the key notions of rights, property, and consent. Some of Jefferson's political conclusions differed from those of Locke either in degree, such as in the details of representation, or in kind, such as in regard to the ownership of property
Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Spiritualism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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