Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social VirtueLexington Books, 2000 - 233 pages In his study, Hill challenges common interpretations of the political thought of Adams and Smith, providing scholars and students with an engaging and novel portrait of social and political theory in America, at its founding and at the inception of the twenty-first century. |
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Page 41
... according to Bloch , who notes that this idea was “ usually associated with the secular theories of civic republicanism , " but , in addition , " American Protestants usually assumed that true virtue was impossible to achieve without ...
... according to Bloch , who notes that this idea was “ usually associated with the secular theories of civic republicanism , " but , in addition , " American Protestants usually assumed that true virtue was impossible to achieve without ...
Page 106
... according to Wills . Historians of political thought debate Wills on this point . Diggins , Lost Soul of American Politics , 10-11 , for instance , agrees that Scottish thought influenced our founders but also argues that the Scottish ...
... according to Wills . Historians of political thought debate Wills on this point . Diggins , Lost Soul of American Politics , 10-11 , for instance , agrees that Scottish thought influenced our founders but also argues that the Scottish ...
Page 113
... according to Kolm . But for Kolm to read Smith as advocating an ideology of “ individualization of soci- ety " he must grossly distort Smith.14 He falsely attributes to Smith an idea Smith abhorred , an eighteenth - century fallacy no ...
... according to Kolm . But for Kolm to read Smith as advocating an ideology of “ individualization of soci- ety " he must grossly distort Smith.14 He falsely attributes to Smith an idea Smith abhorred , an eighteenth - century fallacy no ...
Contents
Revolutionary Values | 21 |
Virtues for Democratic Citizens | 59 |
Individuality within Communities | 83 |
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