Thomas Jefferson’s Philosophy: The Enlightenment; Ideology

M. L. Burstein

Chapter Chapter Seven in Understanding Thomas Jefferson, 1993, pp 227-249 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Like most people, Thomas Jefferson disdained metaphysics; and like all serious thinkers, could not elude ultimate existential quandaries. He called himself a materialist. What does that mean?

Keywords: Modern Science; Moral Philosophy; French Revolution; Logical Construction; British Empiricism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13115-0_7

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