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| Tango01 | 30 Aug 2022 9:19 p.m. PST |
"Thomas Jefferson is a kind of incarnate compendium of the Enlightenment. His remarkable openness to its spirit is the philosophical counterpart to his political sensitivity in making himself "a passive auditor of the opinions of others," so as to catch the "harmonizing sentiments of the day" and to incorporate them into a document that would be "an expression of the American mind," the Declaration of Independence. Was Thomas Jefferson a philosopher? If so, in what sense? I can imagine two opposing questions raised in rejoinder…."
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