In Search of the Republic: Public Virtue and the Roots of American GovernmentRowman & Littlefield, 1996 - 269 pages When 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 92
... civil religion and perhaps break the tender bond of order in the Republic . According to Profes- sor Peter Gay , Cicero " disclosed by his conduct the gulf between a few philosophers and the mass of believers , private disenchantment ...
... civil religion and perhaps break the tender bond of order in the Republic . According to Profes- sor Peter Gay , Cicero " disclosed by his conduct the gulf between a few philosophers and the mass of believers , private disenchantment ...
Page 95
... civil religion , " and too vague to permit the identification of parameters necessary for thorough study and expla- nation . sug- Still others refer to civil religion to describe a nation's or a commu- nity's " common , " or " general ...
... civil religion , " and too vague to permit the identification of parameters necessary for thorough study and expla- nation . sug- Still others refer to civil religion to describe a nation's or a commu- nity's " common , " or " general ...
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... civil religion , in the words of Bellah , was not simply " religion in general , " rather , " while generality was undoubtedly seen as a virtue by some ... the civil religion was specific enough when it came to the topic of America ...
... civil religion , in the words of Bellah , was not simply " religion in general , " rather , " while generality was undoubtedly seen as a virtue by some ... the civil religion was specific enough when it came to the topic of America ...
Contents
Public Virtue and the 1 Roots of Republican Government | 1 |
The Metamorphosis of the Idea of Virtue | 19 |
Virtue Comes to America | 47 |
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