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The philosophy of the American Revolution

Author: Morton Gabriel White
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this study of the fundamental philosophical ideas associated with the American Revolution the author focuses on the Declaration of Independence and refers to many occasions to other American Revolutionary writings of the eighteenth century in an effort to analyze the epistemology, metaphysics, philosophical theology and ethics upon which the revolutionaries rested their claim to independence.
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White, Morton Gabriel, 1917-
Philosophy of the American Revolution.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1978
(OCoLC)570116982
Online version:
White, Morton Gabriel, 1917-
Philosophy of the American Revolution.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1978
(OCoLC)607898401
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Morton Gabriel White
ISBN: 0195023811 9780195023817
OCLC Number: 3447225
Description: xii, 299 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Prologue: The changeable philosophy of the immutable --
Self-evident truth and democracy --
Self-evident truth and the founding fathers --
Reason, moral sense, and the people --
The laws of nature and of nature's God --
The nature of rights --
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" --
Epilogue: Man's glassy essence: the murky mirrors of morality.
Responsibility: Morton White.

Abstract:

In this study of the fundamental philosophical ideas associated with the American Revolution the author focuses on the Declaration of Independence and refers to many occasions to other American Revolutionary writings of the eighteenth century in an effort to analyze the epistemology, metaphysics, philosophical theology and ethics upon which the revolutionaries rested their claim to independence.

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