Thomas Jefferson, Nature's God, and the Theological Foundations of Natural-Rights Republicanism
While the role of theology in Jefferson's political thought and its implications for how we should understand the role of Nature's God in grounding natural-rights republicanism are topics of ongoing scholarly interest, scholars have missed important continuities between Jefferson's...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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Politics and religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 662-688 |
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| Summary: | While the role of theology in Jefferson's political thought and its implications for how we should understand the role of Nature's God in grounding natural-rights republicanism are topics of ongoing scholarly interest, scholars have missed important continuities between Jefferson's natural-law theory and that of classical, theistic natural-law. Many scholars who have considered Jefferson in this light have emphasized Jefferson's discontinuity and even subversion of that tradition. In critical dialogue with this vein of scholarship, we argue that Jefferson espouses a creational metaphysics and a natural-law theory of morality that has surprising continuities with classical natural-law. We seek to shed new light on Jefferson's theory of the moral sense and his the earth belongs to the living principle, which we contend encapsulates his theistic understanding of equality and property. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048317000104 |