How are so many impassioned modern-day commentators against slavery the heirs of Taney and Thoreau? (See previous post to see the impact of Kant on Taney and the South.)
Answer: Start at "Perfect happiness" and read to the end of the paragraph.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
p. 301 A New Birth of Freedom, Jaffa
What is the best evidence that the Founders did not mean to exclude blacks from "all men created equal"?
Read this paragraph and the following paragraph down to "...has been equally endowed by its Creator."
Read this paragraph and the following paragraph down to "...has been equally endowed by its Creator."
Thursday, September 15, 2011
p. 292 A New Birth of Freedom, Jaffa
Jaffa argues that Taney and Southerners reached their conclusions by applying a new morality. What was their morality and how did it work?
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