Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy: Volume 29

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"In 1776, the American Declaration of Independence appealed to "the Laws of nature and of Nature's God" and affirmed "these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness . . . ." In 1935, John Dewey, professor of philosophy at Columbia University, declared, "Natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology." These opposing pronouncements on natural rights represent two separate and antithetical American political traditions: natural rights individualism, the original Lockean tradition of the Founding; and Progressivism, the collectivist reaction to individualism which arose initially in the newly established universities in the decades following the Civil War"--

ISBN10: 1107641942	ISBN13: 9781107641945
Pages: 373
Publisher: Cambridge University Press	GoodReads Rating: 0
Author: Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, Jeffrey Paul,

Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy: Volume 29

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