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- American Virtues : Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
- Publication Name
- American Virtues
- Title
- American Virtues
- Subtitle
- Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780700616787
- ISBN
- 9780700616787
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, History & Theory, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / General
- Release Year
- 1998
- Release Date
- 30/09/1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Series
- American Political Thought
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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Since the early days of the republic, Americans have recognized Thomas Jefferson's distinctive role in helping to shape the American national character. As Founder and statesman, Jefferson thought broadly about the virtues Americans would need to cultivate in order to preserve and perfect their experiment in republican self-government. Now in an age preoccupied with rights and divided over questions of character in public and private life, Jefferson can help us to think more clearly about our most urgent concerns. American Virtues is the first comprehensive analysis of Jefferson's moral and political philosophy in over twenty years and the first ever to focus exclusively on the full range of moral, civic, and intellectual virtues that together form the American character. It asks what kind of character Americans as a people must cultivate to ensure their freedom and happiness and how we as a free society can nurture moral and intellectual excellence in our citizens and statesmen. Beginning with the Declaration of Independence, Jean Yarbrough explores how Jefferson's conception of rights helps to form the American character. In subsequent chapters, she examines the moral sense virtues of justice and benevolence; the "agrarian" virtues of industry, moderation, patience, self-reliance, and independence; patriotism and modern republicanism; slavery and agrarian vice; the effect of commerce on character; the virtues connected with private property; the civic virtues of vigilance and spirited participation; the meaning of virtue and happiness for women; the virtues of republican statesmen; the place of the Epicurean virtues of wisdom and friendship in liberal republicanism; and piety and the secularized virtues of charity, toleration, and hope. In broadening the examination of virtue to include not only civic or republican virtue but the whole range of moral and intellectual excellence that perfect the individual character, American Virtues moves beyond the liberal-republican debates and makes a fresh contribution to the Jeffersonian literature.
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University Press of Kansas
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0700616780
ISBN-13
9780700616787
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73202878
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Book Title
American Virtues : Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, History & Theory, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
280 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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"At a time when all of us have opinions about Thomas Jefferson's character, Jean Yarbrough is the first to understand that his ideas about our character are far more interesting. Yarbrough deftly probes the interweaving of concern with both private and public virtue that marked Jefferson's thinking, giving praise where it is due and criticism where it is deserved. The result is a morally engaged and thoughtful inquiry into the fundamental character of democratic citizenship from a leading student of early American political theory."- Jack Rakove , author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution "Jean Yarbrough has produced a searching revaluation of America's philosopher-statesman, Jefferson--a man too philosophic to be a statesman, too political to excel as philosopher. Yarbrough shows him absorbed in the work of uniting rights and virtue, enabling a free people to govern itself and to live together competently in self-reliance. True to the man and his time, yet profoundly useful today, her distinguished book presents this American hero as he was so that we can learn from him."- Harvey Mansfield , author of Machiavelli's Virtue and Taming the Prince, An elegantly written, cogently argued interpretation that should generate many valuable discussions not only about Jeffersons thought but, more important, about the kinds of virtues and values required of a people who mean to govern themselves.-- Journal of American History The best exposition we have of Jefferson's thought.-- American Political Science Review, "An elegantly written, cogently argued interpretation that should generate many valuable discussions not only about Jefferson's thought but, more important, about the kinds of virtues and values required of a people who mean to govern themselves."-- Journal of American History "The best exposition we have of Jefferson's thought."-- American Political Science Review, An elegantly written, cogently argued interpretation that should generate many valuable discussions not only about Jeffersons thought but, more important, about the kinds of virtues and values required of a people who mean to govern themselves.Journal of American History The best exposition we have of Jeffersons thought.American Political Science Review, "At a time when all of us have opinions about Thomas Jefferson's character, Jean Yarbrough is the first to understand that his ideas about our character are far more interesting. Yarbrough deftly probes the interweaving of concern with both private and public virtue that marked Jefferson's thinking, giving praise where it is due and criticism where it is deserved. The result is a morally engaged and thoughtful inquiry into the fundamental character of democratic citizenship from a leading student of early American political theory."Jack Rakove , author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution "Jean Yarbrough has produced a searching revaluation of America's philosopher-statesman, Jeffersona man too philosophic to be a statesman, too political to excel as philosopher. Yarbrough shows him absorbed in the work of uniting rights and virtue, enabling a free people to govern itself and to live together competently in self-reliance. True to the man and his time, yet profoundly useful today, her distinguished book presents this American hero as he was so that we can learn from him."Harvey Mansfield , author of Machiavelli's Virtue and Taming the Prince, "At a time when all of us have opinions about Thomas Jefferson's character, Jean Yarbrough is the first to understand that his ideas about our character are far more interesting. Yarbrough deftly probes the interweaving of concern with both private and public virtue that marked Jefferson's thinking, giving praise where it is due and criticism where it is deserved. The result is a morally engaged and thoughtful inquiry into the fundamental character of democratic citizenship from a leading student of early American political theory."-- Jack Rakove , author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution "Jean Yarbrough has produced a searching revaluation of America's philosopher-statesman, Jefferson--a man too philosophic to be a statesman, too political to excel as philosopher. Yarbrough shows him absorbed in the work of uniting rights and virtue, enabling a free people to govern itself and to live together competently in self-reliance. True to the man and his time, yet profoundly useful today, her distinguished book presents this American hero as he was so that we can learn from him."-- Harvey Mansfield , author of Machiavelli's Virtue and Taming the Prince
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Declaration and the American Character 2. The Moral Sense Virtues and Character Formation 3. Work, Property, and Character: Agrarian Virtue and Commercial Virtue 4. Civic Virtue, Statesmanship, and Republican Self-Government 5. The Liberal Ideal: Duties to Self, Friendship, and Duties to God Notes Works Cited Index
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