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Thomas Paine's American Ideology
Alfred Owen Aldridge
出版University of Delaware Press, 1984
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Political Science / History & Theory
ISBN08741326069780874132601
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lN582EPgp40C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Covering Paine's intellectual career between 1775 and 1787, Aldridge summarizes his work as an apprentice magazine editor, sketches the publishing history of Common Sense and its doctrines, and shows the relations of these ideas to those in the works of Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau. Seeking to create a just and ordered society through reason and choice instead of through passive submission to accident and force, he developed such themes as the inherent nature of man, the meaning of virtue, and the identity of American character. This book reveals that as part of the polemics over Common Sense, Paine wrote a pamphlet, Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, which discredits the notion of reconciliation with Britain, the provincial perspective of placing Pennsylvania above the Union, the charter of the British Constitution. Aldridge also investigates The Crisis and Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. ISBN 0-87413-260-6 : $38.50.