Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness

Author : Charles R. Kesler,John B. Kienker, Managing Editor of the Claremont Review of Books
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442213357

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Charles R. Kesler,John B. Kienker, Managing Editor of the Claremont Review of Books Pdf

Over the past 10 years, the Claremont Review of Books has become one of the preeminent conservative magazines in the United States, offering bold arguments for a reinvigorated conservatism that draws upon the timeless principles of the American Founding and applies them to the moral and political problems we face today. With essays by the likes of William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Richard Brookheiser, James Q. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Victor Davis Hanson, Ross Douthat, and many others, this collection surveys the range of issues addressed in the Claremont Review of Books first decade, from the conservative critique of American progressivism to foreign policy, politics, history, and culture. Liberally illustrated with art director Elliot Banfield's popular cartoons, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness provides the magazine's many devotees with a treasured keepsake of a tumultuous decade and will be of interest to all those who care about American politics and culture.

Author : Peggy Noonan
Publisher : Adams Media Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558505091

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Peggy Noonan Pdf

The bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution--George Bush's former speech writer--now turns her wit and unblinking eye to explore her own deepening faith, society's failures, the Presidency, urban liberalism, and more, in a funny, touching, entertaining collection of essays.

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845402747

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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility by Anthony Kenny Pdf

A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny.

Author : Gordon Anderson
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000124579065

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 by Gordon Anderson Pdf

The American founders designed a Constitution for governance of the United States based on the idea that citizens are sovereign and that function of government is to protect their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. This book calls the original system "version 3.0," and discusses five basic political principles required for a modern government to accomplish that function. These principles were either explicit or implicit at the founding. However, the United States has deviated from these principles over time, and today the federal government is doing many of the things the Constitution sought to protect against. Congress is in a position much like the programmers of a computer operating system that seek to increase the functionality of the system and to ward off attacks from viruses. However, not only have they passed laws that take away from the citizen's abilities to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, they have also introduced various viruses that threaten the existence of the entire system. This book describes how we can eliminate these viruses infecting the system and update the U.S. government to "version 4.0," allowing U.S. citizens to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, thereby producing a solid foundation for a strong and durable society in which all can freely prosper. There are several conclusions that run against the current prevailing views. The most significant conclusion involves the relationship of the government to the economy. Several principles adopted as prevailing economic wisdom in both the Republican and Democratic Parties are considered harmful to the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness of citizens, and harmful to the society as a whole. There are many books on reforming the U.S. government, which a majority of Americans consider to be broken. However, there is no comprehensive systematic vision based on these core principles of government. Rather, most approaches are patches on symptoms produced by not adhering to these fundamental principles in the first place.

Author : Karla de la Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1793144478

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: La Vida, Libertad Y La Búsqueda de la Felicidad by Karla de la Torre Pdf

Ever wondered what being undocumented truly means? Follow Karla's journey from undocumented immigrant to attorney to law professor. She invites you to join her on the rollercoaster of life. Feel her gut-wrenching emotion, as well as the laughter and love that has filled her bilingual world. Read her story in English and Spanish and be inspired to live yours.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, American
ISBN : OCLC:953622512

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Anonim Pdf

"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery draws upon the Gallery's renowned collection of American paintings, decorative arts, and prints to illuminate the subtle and multivalent nature of the American experience from the time of the settlements of the late 17th century to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. The more than 200 works on view include treasures rarely seen outside of New Haven. Among these are John Trumbull's eight Revolutionary War scenes, including The Declaration of Independence (1786-1820), which have never before left the campus as a group; Winslow Homer's Morning Bell (1871); and Jeremiah Dummer's magnificent silver candlesticks (ca. 1686)--the earliest surviving pair of American sticks. The works tell the story of their times, creating a vivid portrait of a young country struggling to invent a people and a nation, and to define itself culturally, politically, and geographically."--Yale University website, http://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/life-liberty-and-pursuit-happiness-american-art-yale-university-art-gallery

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812974324

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Light and Liberty by Thomas Jefferson Pdf

Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson’s published works to fashion thirty-four original essays on themes ranging from patriotism and liberty to hope, humility, and gratitude. The result is a lucid, inspiring distillation of the wisdom of one of America’s greatest political thinkers. From his personal motto—“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”—to his resounding discourse on “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson defined the essential truth of the American spirit. In the essays that Petersen has crafted from letters, speeches, and public documents, Jefferson’s unique moral philosophy and vision shine through. Among the hundreds of magnificent sentences gathered in this volume, here are Jefferson’s pronouncements on Gratitude: “I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations— to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements and under all circumstances, to be open and generous.” Religion: “A concern purely between our God and our consciences.” America’s national character: “It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate; to surmount every difficulty with resolution and contrivance.” Public debt: “We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves.” War: “I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.” In stately measured cadences, these thirty-four essays provide timeless guidance on leading a spiritually fulfilling life. Light and Liberty is a triumphant work of supreme eloquence, as uplifting today as when Jefferson first set these immortal sentences on paper.

Author : Brent A. Strawn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199795741

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The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness by Brent A. Strawn Pdf

Scholars of the social sciences have devoted more and more attention of late to the concept of human happiness, mainly from sociological and psychological perspectives. This volume, which includes essays from scholars of the New Testament, the Old Testament, systematic theology, practical theology, and counseling psychology, poses a new and exciting question: what is happiness according to the Bible? Informed by developments in positive psychology, The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness explores representations of happiness throughout the Bible and demonstrates the ways in which these representations affect both religious and secular understandings of happiness. In addition to the twelve essays, the book contains a framing introduction and epilogue, as well as an appendix of all the terms used in reference to happiness in the Bible. The resulting volume, the first of its kind, is a highly useful and remarkably comprehensive resource for the study of happiness in the Bible and beyond.

Author : Peggy Noonan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812969894

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What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan Pdf

On the hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth comes the twentieth-anniversary edition of Peggy Noonan’s critically acclaimed bestseller What I Saw at the Revolution, for which she provides a new Preface that demonstrates this book’s timeless relevance. As a special assistant to the president, Noonan worked with Ronald Reagan—and with Vice President George H. W. Bush—on some of their most memorable speeches. Noonan shows us the world behind the words, and her sharp, vivid portraits of President Reagan and a host of Washington’s movers and shakers are rendered in inimitable, witty prose. Her priceless account of what it was like to be a speechwriter among bureaucrats, and a woman in the last bastion of male power, makes this a Washington memoir that breaks the mold—as spirited, sensitive, and thoughtful as Peggy Noonan herself.

Author : Carli N. Conklin
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826274274

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The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era by Carli N. Conklin Pdf

Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happiness, yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term within a single text, the Declaration of Independence. In this insightful volume, Carli Conklin considers the pursuit of happiness across a variety of intellectual traditions, and explores its usage in two key legal texts of the Founding Era, the Declaration and William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England. For Blackstone, the pursuit of happiness was a science of jurisprudence, by which his students could know, and then rightly apply, the first principles of the Common Law. For the founders, the pursuit of happiness was the individual right to pursue a life lived in harmony with the law of nature and a public duty to govern in accordance with that law. Both applications suggest we consider anew how the phrase, and its underlying legal philosophies, were understood in the founding era. With this work, Conklin makes important contributions to the fields of early American intellectual and legal history.

Author : Carl M. Cannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461614210

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The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War by Carl M. Cannon Pdf

The Founders wrote in 1776 that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" are unalienable American rights. In The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War, Carl M. Cannon shows how this single phrase is one of almost unbelievable historical power. It was this rich rhetorical vein that New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and President George W. Bush tapped into after 9/11 when they urged Americans to go to ballgames, to shop, to do things that made them happy even in the face of unrivaled horror. From the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism, Americans have lived out this creed. They have been helped in this effort by their elected leaders, who in times of war inevitably hark back to Jefferson's soaring language. If the former Gotham mayor and the current president had perfect pitch in the days after September 11, so too have American presidents and other leaders throughout our nation's history. In this book, Mr. Cannon—a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist—traces the roots of Jefferson's powerful phrase and explores how it has been embraced by wartime presidents for two centuries. Mr. Cannon draws on original research at presidential libraries and interviews with Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, among others. He discussed with the presidents exactly what the phrase means to them. Mr. Cannon charts how Americans' understanding of the pursuit of happiness has changed through the years as the nation itself has changed. In the end, America's political leaders have all come to the same conclusion as its spiritual leaders: True happiness—either for a nation or an individual—does not come from conquest or fortune or even from the attainment of freedom itself. It comes in the pursuit of happiness for the benefit of others. This may be one truth that contemporary liberals and conservatives can agree on. John McCain and Jimmy Carter both envision happiness as a sacrifice to a higher calling, embodied in everything from McCain's time as a prisoner of war to the N

Author : Zoe Lowery
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508100348

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The American Revolution by Zoe Lowery Pdf

The tale of how the colonial Americans won their independence from Great Britain is well-known among young and old, and its retelling continues to be an inspiration for the struggling and downtrodden. Readers will be introduced to the stressful, tense, and sometimes violent days leading up to the revolution. The instructive text then goes on to discuss major battles, war strategies, and tide-turning events. Both text and sidebars highlight important figures and events in this classic historical tale of perseverance that never grows stale.

Author : Gregory L. Little,Kenneth D. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0940829169

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Discovering Life and Liberty in the Pursuit of Happiness by Gregory L. Little,Kenneth D. Robinson Pdf

Author : Gordon Louis Anderson
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106017647246

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Philosophy of the United States by Gordon Louis Anderson Pdf

Anderson begins his book by noting that the shock of 9/11 can in some ways be compared to the shock the Babylonians experienced in 1158 B.C. or the Romans experienced in 410 A.D. These ancient civilizations, the lessons learned from them, and the spiritual impulses they generated (Judaism and Christianity respectively), form the cultural matrix from which the modern philosophy that guided the creation of the United States Constitution emerged. Notable is Anderson s description of how, at the founding, the liberal rationalists and the pietistic revivalists were able to cooperate. This was possible through a sense of common purpose and a general philosophy broad enough to encompass the more specific philosophies of the liberals and conservatives of the day. Through his description of the issues the founding left unresolved and the pursuit of greed and power, Anderson shows how that common purpose has degenerated into the culture wars that threaten to tear the United States apart today. [Publisher web site].

Author : Wesley B. Hoover
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 147937962X

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Life, Liberty, Property, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Wesley B. Hoover Pdf

The Declaration of Independance written by Thomas Jefferson is perhaps the most famous document describing the unique character of the American experiment. It suggests a most profound concept of human endeavors and the human rights the founders held to be unalienable. This is a book touching briefly but poignantly on these profound rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, rounded out by an in depth analysis of the rights of Property. All of these are unalienable rights given to man by God not with the intention of being taken away by man. It is a fierce defense of these freedoms and rights and shows how and why they were given to man and why they must be preserved and freely practiced. And finally, there is a connection between God and man related to man's origin and eternal destiny and how these rights (blessings really) are entwined in man's pursuit of happiness and how they involve and include all men no matter where they live.