- Apr 2018
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wisc.pb.unizin.org wisc.pb.unizin.org
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liberty to human happiness.
I've often wondered why, and often had to be sure my students understood, that Jefferson used "the pursuit of happiness" rather than Locke's more direct reference to property rights. Obviously Mill wrote after Jefferson, so my question is did Jefferson borrow this "utilitarian" adaptation from any particular writer or thinker and were Mill & Bentham reading the same literature years later. Just curious.
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- Jun 2017
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dmiller54.github.io dmiller54.github.io
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life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness:
life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness: Jefferson was familiar with the Author Hudibrass reading and shedding tears as such as Mr. Samuel Butler~[]https://books.google.com/books?id=3vpeAAAAcAAJ&dq=liberty%2C%20%26%20the%20pursuit%20of%20happiness&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q=liberty,%20&%20the%20pursuit%20of%20happiness&f=false
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- Mar 2017
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teachingamericanhistory.org teachingamericanhistory.org
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The fact that the church of our country, (with fractional exceptions), does not esteem “the Fugitive Slave Law” as a declaration of war against religious liberty, implies that that church regards religion simply as a form of worship, an empty ceremony, and not a vital principle, requiring active benevolence, justice, love and good will towards man.
Douglass describes how religious liberty seems hollow in the country if the principles of Christianity aren't practiced along with mere preaching. He also uses strong language concerning the Fugitive Slave law as a "declaration of war" against religious liberty. This is an interesting point, as he views the law as hindering his and other Christians' ability to carry out and practice Christianity by helping fugitive slaves. This idea of too much government causing suppression of religion correlates to Thoreau's minimalistic desires of government
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- Apr 2015
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www.benkler.org www.benkler.org
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Name /yal05/27282_u00 01/27/06 10:25AM Plate # 0-Composite pg 6 # 6 1 0 1 “Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.” “Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of plea- sure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of differ- ent physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding di- versity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.” JohnStuartMill, On Liberty (1859
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- Sep 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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Next comes liberality; liberal people let their money go instead of fighting for it, whereas other people care more for money than for anything else.
Interesting to see liberty and liberalism defined.
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