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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Page xiii
... moral sense , " its expression in " virtue , " and the " genius of the people . " These were descriptive terms , widely understood at that time , and frequently employed by the Founders , the writers of newsprint , teachers in the ...
... moral sense , " its expression in " virtue , " and the " genius of the people . " These were descriptive terms , widely understood at that time , and frequently employed by the Founders , the writers of newsprint , teachers in the ...
Page xv
... moral philosophy and " language " of the American Founding . Yet this conduit of the Enlightenment has been almost ignored in modern commentary . Nevertheless , the search for the republic goes on . As the years passed after the ...
... moral philosophy and " language " of the American Founding . Yet this conduit of the Enlightenment has been almost ignored in modern commentary . Nevertheless , the search for the republic goes on . As the years passed after the ...
Page xvi
... moral claim of the past and open the way for drastic reform proposals . " Historian Charles A. Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Consti- tution became a classic formulation of the attempt to question the motives of the Founders ...
... moral claim of the past and open the way for drastic reform proposals . " Historian Charles A. Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Consti- tution became a classic formulation of the attempt to question the motives of the Founders ...
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... moral philosophy and concern for virtue had no impact on the outcome of the new govern- ment . The Constitution , they wrote , was made up merely of mechan- ical devices , was intended to control self - interest , and made no demands on ...
... moral philosophy and concern for virtue had no impact on the outcome of the new govern- ment . The Constitution , they wrote , was made up merely of mechan- ical devices , was intended to control self - interest , and made no demands on ...
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... 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 political science , especially when it found affinity with ...
... 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 political science , especially when it found affinity with ...
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