The Lamp Of Experience

Author : H. Trevor Colbourn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0865971595

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The Lamp of Experience by H. Trevor Colbourn Pdf

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers. As Jack P. Greene has observed, " The Whig] conception saw the past as a continual struggle between liberty and virtue on one hand and arbitrary power and corruption on the other." Many founders found in this intellectual tradition what Josiah Quincy, Jr., called the "true old English liberty," and it was this Whig tradition--this conception of liberty--that the champions of American independence and crafters of the new republic sought to perpetuate. Colbourn supports his thesis--that "Independence was in large measure the product of the historical concepts of the men who made it"--by documenting what books were read most widely by the founding generation. He also cites diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records. Trevor Colbourn is President Emeritus of the University of Central Florida. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

Author : H. Trevor Colbourn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89069291706

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The Lamp of Experience by H. Trevor Colbourn Pdf

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers. As Jack P. Greene has observed, " The Whig] conception saw the past as a continual struggle between liberty and virtue on one hand and arbitrary power and corruption on the other." Many founders found in this intellectual tradition what Josiah Quincy, Jr., called the "true old English liberty," and it was this Whig tradition--this conception of liberty--that the champions of American independence and crafters of the new republic sought to perpetuate. Colbourn supports his thesis--that "Independence was in large measure the product of the historical concepts of the men who made it"--by documenting what books were read most widely by the founding generation. He also cites diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records. Trevor Colbourn is President Emeritus of the University of Central Florida. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

Author : Henry Coppée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102770096

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Elements of Rhetoric by Henry Coppée Pdf

Author : Patrick Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1658605217

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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death (Annotated) by Patrick Henry Pdf

"'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, ..

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520242722

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Songs of Experience by Martin Jay Pdf

"Martin Jay is one of the most influential intellectual historians in contemporary America, and here he shows once again a willingness to tackle the 'big issues' in the Western cultural tradition…. A remarkable history of ideas about the nature of human experience."—Lloyd Kramer, author of Threshold of a New World "A magisterial study of one of the most elusive, contested, and pervasively important concepts of the Western philosophical tradition. Ranging from epistemology and aesthetics to the philosophy of history, religion, and politics, Songs of Experience brilliantly traces the major lines of theory and debate. Insightful, rich, and masterfully narrated, Jay's book sings with that well-tempered voice of erudition, synthetic intelligence, and generous grace that has become his enviable trademark."—Richard Shusterman, author of Pragmatist Aesthetics "This illuminating, provocative volume consolidates Martin Jay's standing as our leading modern intellectual historian. Ranging sure-footedly from ancient to postmodern discourse, Jay offers finely balanced readings of thinkers who have wrestled with the elusive concept of experience. Because Jay respects—and presents so clearly and sympathetically—positions different from his own, Songs of Experience gives readers the resources necessary to embrace or resist his own bold interpretations of philosophers from Kant and Burke through Dilthey and Dewey to Foucault and Rorty. This book will prove as indispensable to intellectual historians as the idea of experience itself."—James T. Kloppenberg, author of The Virtues of Liberalism

Author : E. Nathaniel Gates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136764615

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Race and U.S. Foreign Policy from Colonial Times Through the Age of Jackson by E. Nathaniel Gates Pdf

First published in 1998. Explores the concept of "race" - The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and not socially created, gave birth to the modern notion of "races" as genetically distinct entities. The results of this view were the encoding of "race" and "racial" hierarchies in law, literature, and culture. How "racial" categories facilitate social control - The articles in the series demonstrate that the classification of humans according to selected physical characteristics was an arbitrary decision that was not based on valid scientific method. They also examine the impact of colonialism on the propagation of the concept and note that "racial" categorization is a powerful social force that is often used to promote the interests of dominant social groups. Finally, the collection surveys how laws based on "race" have been enacted around the world to deny power to minority groups. A multidisciplinary resource- This collection of outstanding articles brings multiple perspectives to bear on race theory and draws on a wider ranger of periodicals than even the largest library usually holds. Even if all the articles were available on campus, chances are that a student would have to track them down in several libraries and microfilm collections. Providing, of course, that no journals were reserved for graduate students, out for binding, or simply missing. This convenient set saves students substantial time and effort by making available all the key articles in one reliable source.

Author : M. Andrew Holowchak,Brian W. Dotts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476630038

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The Elusive Thomas Jefferson by M. Andrew Holowchak,Brian W. Dotts Pdf

 Thomas Jefferson’s writings on morality have largely been ignored. His thoughts on the subject, never developed in any formal work, are said to be unsystematic—a judgment reinforced by his shift from Stoicism (intentions are critical) to Utilitarianism (consequences are critical) later in life. Yet his writings and the moral works he recommended reveal much about his moral sense and views on good living. Jefferson valued personal moral improvement, had great respect for moral exemplars and drew inspiration from moralists, sermonizers, novelists, poets, historians and such role models as Professor William Small and his friend George Wythe.

Author : Nolan Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190060695

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The Claims of Experience by Nolan Bennett Pdf

"Why have so many figures throughout American history proclaimed their life stories when confronted by great political problems? The Claims of Experience provides a new theory for what makes autobiography political throughout the history of the United States and today. Across five chapters, Nolan Bennett examines the democratic crises that encouraged a diverse cast of figures to bear their stories: Benjamin Franklin amid the revolutionary era and its aftermath, Frederick Douglass in the antebellum and abolitionist movements, Henry Adams in the Gilded Age and its anxieties of industrial change, Emma Goldman among the first Red Scare and state opposition to radical speech, and Whittaker Chambers amid the second Red Scare that initiated the anticommunist turn of modern conservatism. These authors made what Bennett calls a "claim of experience": a life narrative that offers its audience new community by restoring to readers and author alike from prevailing political authorities the power to remake and make meaning of their lives. Whereas political theorists and activists have often seen autobiography to be too individualist or a mere documentary source of evidence, this theory reveals the democratic power that life narratives both written and spoken have offered those on the margins and in the mainstream. When successful, claims of experience redistribute popular authority from unsettled institutions and identities to new democratic visions. This book offers both a method for understanding the politics of life narrative and a call to anticipate claims of experience as they appear today. American politics, democracy, authority, life writing, autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Henry Adams, Emma Goldman, Whittaker Chambers"--

Author : Harry C. Thomson,Lida Mayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015025142061

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The Ordnance Department: Procurement and Supply by Harry C. Thomson,Lida Mayo Pdf

Author : Harry C. Thomson,Lida Mayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112055126327

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The Ordnance Department by Harry C. Thomson,Lida Mayo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754060325192

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United States Army in World War II. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Constance McLaughlin Green,Harry C. Thomson,Peter C. Roots
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCSD:31822032482341

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The Ordnance Department: Procurement and supply, by H.C. Thomson and L. Mayo by Constance McLaughlin Green,Harry C. Thomson,Peter C. Roots Pdf

Author : Blanche D. Coll,Dulany Terrett,George Raynor Thompson,Harry C. Thomson,Joseph Bykofsky,Karl Christian Dod,Lenore Fine,Lida Mayo,Harold Larson,Jesse Arthur Remington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UIUC:30112087412984

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The Corps of Engineers by Blanche D. Coll,Dulany Terrett,George Raynor Thompson,Harry C. Thomson,Joseph Bykofsky,Karl Christian Dod,Lenore Fine,Lida Mayo,Harold Larson,Jesse Arthur Remington Pdf

Author : David Kin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781504076302

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Dictionary of American Maxims by David Kin Pdf

An extensive collection of aphorisms of fundamental American moral rules and principles on a variety of subjects. Over the course of centuries, humanity has set down an accumulation of acute and succinct wisdom. It has the potential to be valuable and reliable, if they should be consistent in putting into practice the precepts which the best minds of the species have bequeathed them. Homo sapiens are fast learners and equally speedy forgetters. Therefore, from time to time, they should be reminded of this beneficial wisdom. In Dictionary of American Maxims, author David Kin collects a wide array of bon mots (and some wisecracks) attributed to American minds ranging from President George Washington to newspaper gossip columnist Walter Winchell. Kin has organized a vast array of wise sayings alphabetically by subject from “Ability” to “Zoroaster.” This is rich fare, certain to inspire, educate, and entertain.

Author : Radhika Herzberger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400946668

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Bhartṛhari and the Buddhists by Radhika Herzberger Pdf

The Viikyapadiya of Bhartrhari and the Pramii1Jasamuccaya of Dignaga • are seminal texts in the history of ancient Indian philosophy. One text deals with grammar, the other with logic, both are the work of committed metaphysicians. Written within a span of less than a hundred years, between the fifth and the sixth centuries A.D., these texts have generally been treated separately, as representing independent schools of thought. This essay attempts to interpret these texts jointly, as a dialogue between a grammarian and a logician. This way of approaching these texts highlights unexpected facets of Bhartrhari's and Dignaga's theories of language and is intended to identify the individual achievements of each. Above all, this treatment is an exercise in writing the intellectual history of a period in time, rather than a history of a school of philosophy. The prevailing view of Bhartrhari holds that his linguistic techniques are not intrinsic to his metaphysics. The conclusions reached in the present essay are that Bhartrhari's metaphysics underlie his linguistic techniques and articulate their presuppositions. The prevailing view of Dignaga maintains that for him language deals with illusory entities and must falsify what is real. The conclusions reached in the present essay are that Dignaga's logical rules are designed to ensure that in using language one is not committed to a belief in fictional entities. My debt to modern scholarship in the field is considerable.