Download or read book Freedom and Virtue written by George W. Carey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-running debates between between conservatives and libertarians are vigorous and highly charged, dealing with ideas about the very nature of liberty and morality. Like no other single work, Freedom and Virtue explores what unites and divides the adherents of these two important American traditions—shedding much light on our current political landscape.
Download or read book The Political Theory of the American Founding written by Thomas G. West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete overview of the Founders' natural rights theory and its policy implications.
Download or read book Call to Virtue written by Kim A. Mayyasi and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American republic was the Enlightenment's greatest experiment, an attempt to institutionalize virtuous character as never done before. Call to Virtue explains the role of character as the driving force behind the rise and fall of empires, the well-being of citizens' lives, and the structure of governments and their constitutions. It draws a line between the definitions of virtue from ancient times to the motivating force behind our nation's founding. The book surveys 3,000 years of Western civilization and uses the voices of history's greatest participants to create a narrative describing character's pivotal role. It describes how definitions of character were an integral part of philosophy, government, and religion from ancient Greece and Rome to the European Enlightenment--and underpin the colonial spirit of America's founding.
Download or read book Founded on Freedom and Virtue written by Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou and published by Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thoughts on Government Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of the Republic written by Richard Vetterli and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Founded on Freedom and Virtue written by Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou and published by Aristide d Caratzas Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Ageless Constitution written by W. David Stedman and published by National Book Network. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty Virtue and Happiness written by Edward W. Ryan and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: The Idea of Economic Freedom; Economic Freedom in Colonial America; The Great American War for Freedom & Independence; 1776-Political Freedom: The Declaration of Independence; 1776-Economic Freedom: Adam Smith & the Wealth of Nations; Victory & its Aftermath; The United States Constitution: Political Freedom; The United States Constitution: Economic Freedom; Free Markets in Action: The People; Free Markets in Action: The Results; Economic Freedom & the State: I; Economic Freedom & the State: II; Economic Freedom: Happiness & Virtue: I; Economic Freedom: Happiness & Virtue: II; Conclusions.
Download or read book Faith and Freedom written by Robert D. Gingrich and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, what did America’s founders really believe about God, the Bible, and Christianity? Find out in Faith and Freedom—The Founding Fathers in Their Own Words. This brand-new survey of the founders’ beliefs provides easy-to-read biographical and historical details along with relevant quotations from the speeches and writings of Patrick Henry, John Adams, George Washington, James Madison, Noah Webster, Benjamin Franklin, and a half-dozen others. Often portrayed as either hostile to faith or unbelieving in a personal God, the Founding Fathers of Faith and Freedom just might surprise you!
Download or read book If You Can Keep It written by Eric Metaxas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score. If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness—including our role as a "nation of nations"—and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place.
Download or read book A Free People s Suicide written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. Guinness calls us to cultivate the essential civic character needed for ordered liberty and sustainable freedom. True freedom requires virtue, which in turn requires faith. Only within the framework of what is true, right and good can freedom be found.
Download or read book The Learning of Liberty written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1993 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented or historical". -- American Political Science Review. "An important and thoughtful book, stimulating for citizens as well as scholars". -- Journal of American History.
Download or read book The Spirit of Modern Republicanism written by Thomas L. Pangle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-10-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pangle reexamines the moral philosophy of the Founding Fathers and finds that at the heart of the Framers' republicanism was a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecendented commitment to private and economic liberties, and that this commitment represented a departure from both the classical and biblical traditions. He challenges those who explain 18th century political thought exclusively in terms of historical circumstances, Calvinistic faith, or economic and social ideology. He develops a new interpretation of John Locke's moral and political philosophy, arguing that Locke's greatest political and rhetorical achievement was in transforming the God of the Bible into the God of reason and nature; and shows Locke's influence on the Framers' thought. ISBN 0-226-64540-1: $22.50.
Download or read book First Principles written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation. On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders’ thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world. The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew. First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders.
Download or read book Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism written by Peter Berkowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue has been rediscovered in the United States as a subject of public debate and of philosophical inquiry. Politicians from both parties, leading intellectuals, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds are addressing questions about the content of our character. William Bennett's moral guide for children, A Book of Virtues, was a national bestseller. Yet many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, Victorian morality or with crude attempts by government to legislate morals. Peter Berkowitz clarifies the fundamental issues, arguing that a certain ambivalence toward virtue reflects the liberal spirit at its best. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as classical political philosophy, he makes his case with penetrating analyses of four central figures in the making of modern liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill. These thinkers are usually understood to have neglected or disparaged virtue. Yet Berkowitz shows that they all believed that government resting on the fundamental premise of liberalism--the natural freedom and equality of all human beings--could not work unless citizens and officeholders possess particular qualities of mind and character. These virtues, which include reflective judgment, sympathetic imagination, self-restraint, the ability to cooperate, and toleration do not arise spontaneously but must be cultivated. Berkowitz explores the various strategies the thinkers employ as they seek to give virtue its due while respecting individual liberty. Liberals, he argues, must combine energy and forbearance, finding public and private ways to support such nongovernmental institutions as the family and voluntary associations. For these institutions, the liberal tradition powerfully suggests, play an indispensable role not only in forming the virtues on which liberal democracy depends but in overcoming the vices that it tends to engender. Clearly written and vigorously argued, this is a provocative work of political theory that speaks directly to complex issues at the heart of contemporary philosophy and public discussion. New Forum Books makes available to general readers outstanding, original, interdisciplinary scholarship with a special focus on the juncture of culture, law, and politics. New Forum Books is guided by the conviction that law and politics not only reflect culture, but help to shape it. Authors include leading political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, philosophers, theologians, historians, and economists writing for nonspecialist readers and scholars across a range of fields. Looking at questions such as political equality, the concept of rights, the problem of virtue in liberal politics, crime and punishment, population, poverty, economic development, and the international legal and political order, New Forum Books seeks to explain--not explain away--the difficult issues we face today.
Download or read book Liberty and Virtue Freedom and Faith written by Rory Wilson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core beliefs embedded inside the Constitution of the United States makes it special. The Founding Fathers designed a government that is based on essential human rights. They also pronounced the reliance and influence of Divine Providence in their work. With Divine guidance the Founding Fathers achieved success in freedom from tyranny as well as integration of individual states into eventual union. This book tells the story of the importance of virtue and liberty as well as faith and freedom in the development of the Constitution. It also speaks to the predetermined need for the people to act in a manner that is virtuous to maintain the integrity of the government formed to serve the people. Without the conviction of the people our liberty and freedom are at stake. "We the People" have the power to maintain freedom from tyranny through our actions and beliefs. The time is now - if we drift away from the path of morality and allow degradation of basic and fundamental religious principles our government will slip back into the normal evolution of human society and democracy will fail. This is a book that all Americans need to read!
