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Jefferson's Unheavenly City: A Bicentennial Look

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  • Joyotpaul Chaudhuri

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. The opportunity provided by the American Bicentennial for a re‐examination of our political values is also an opportunity for a closer look at the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Although Jefferson has been placed, with John Locke, in a “heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers” who sought new defenses on behalf of medieval spiritualism and divine law, the present essay contends that Jefferson's epistemological commitments differed from Locke's, and that Jefferson's political theory was far more “modern” than Locke's with respect to the key notions of rights, property, and consent. Some of Jefferson's political conclusions differed from those of Locke either in degree, such as in the details of representation, or in kind, such as in regard to the ownership of property.

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  • Joyotpaul Chaudhuri, 1975. "Jefferson's Unheavenly City: A Bicentennial Look," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 397-410, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:34:y:1975:i:4:p:397-410
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1975.tb01202.x
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