| Thomas Jefferson: Moralist Contributor(s): Holowchak, M. Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1476669244 ISBN-13: 9781476669243 Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973.460 |
| LCCN: 2017011402 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a consummate immoralist. Yet he had a keen interest in morality and most of his reading--when he was not immersed in politics--was for moral study. Jefferson once told his physician, Vine Utley, that he seldom went to sleep without first reading something morally inspiring. Some Jefferson scholars consider him at best a moral dilettante with incoherent views. Others see him as a Stoic, interested in virtue as measured by both intentions and outcomes, who in later life became an Epicurean, weighing pleasure versus ends. Drawing on a careful reading of his writings and an examination of his known readings on morality, this study argues that Jefferson developed early a consistent moral sense--Stoical in essence and focused on his own moral improvement--and maintained it throughout his life. |