American Views of Liberty

by Peter Augustine Lawler

American Views of Liberty presents diverse views of the American understanding of human liberty. This book begins rather traditionally with the Declaration of Independence, but with the un-Jeffersonian view that the Declaration's defense of liberty is not free from Christian presuppositions. That public defense differs from Jefferson's private mixture of Epicureanism and secularized Christianity, which is untenable. Attention is then given...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820424129
• ISBN13: 9780820424125
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 183 Pages