In Search of the Republic: Public Virtue and the Roots of American GovernmentWhen In Search of the Republic was originally published in 1987, scholarly interpretations of the concept of virtue in the American founding were considered peripheral to mainstream political theory. Since then, the authors' arguments that public virtue, civic responsibility, and private morality were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' political thought is now accepted by a growing number of contemporary political theorists. This revised edition includes a new preface that places In Search of the Republic within the context of contemporary debates over the role of virtue and religion in early American political discourse. This is a superb introduction for students and scholars interested in learning about the moral, political, and constitutional theories of the Founding Fathers. |
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... classical and biblical through medieval and later times to the present , in fact , saves harmless the essential idea and political func- tion of virtue . There is the question of whether the character of the American people or their ...
... classical and biblical through medieval and later times to the present , in fact , saves harmless the essential idea and political func- tion of virtue . There is the question of whether the character of the American people or their ...
Page xv
... Classical philosophers , such as Plato , Aristotle , and Cicero ; through Italian scholars such as the first of the great representatives of Renaissance Humanism , Francisco Petrarch ( 1304- 1374 ) ; through the vanguard of the English ...
... Classical philosophers , such as Plato , Aristotle , and Cicero ; through Italian scholars such as the first of the great representatives of Renaissance Humanism , Francisco Petrarch ( 1304- 1374 ) ; through the vanguard of the English ...
Page xvii
... classical world for one that was " recognizably modern " and would not countenance establishment of regimes whose purpose it was to transcend the peculiar interests of citizens . Instead , argued Wood , they established an essentially ...
... classical world for one that was " recognizably modern " and would not countenance establishment of regimes whose purpose it was to transcend the peculiar interests of citizens . Instead , argued Wood , they established an essentially ...
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... classical public - spiritedness severed from respect for moral or religious re- straints . Yet , for an extended period it seemed that what had become the ideology of revisionism would reign supreme in the disciplines of history and ...
... classical public - spiritedness severed from respect for moral or religious re- straints . Yet , for an extended period it seemed that what had become the ideology of revisionism would reign supreme in the disciplines of history and ...
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