Ari Helo

Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress

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Produktbeschreibung

This extensive study suggests that, despite being one of the largest slaveholders in Virginia, Jefferson was consistent in his advocacy of human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781107040786
• ISBN-10: 1107040787
• Artikelnr.: 39498627

Autorenporträt

Ari Helo is currently a University Lecturer in History of Science and Ideas at the University of Oulu. He earned his PhD at the University of Tampere in 1999 with a doctoral dissertation examining Thomas Jefferson's political thought. He has taught intellectual history, American studies and cultural studies at numerous universities since 1996, and worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville for three years. Helo's articles, mainly in American intellectual history, have been published in Britain, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, The Netherlands and the United States, among them the widely noticed 'Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery' with Peter Onuf in The William and Mary Quarterly (2003) and a survey article on Jefferson's political thought in the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the morality of a slaveholder
1. History, progress, and politics
2. Progress in natural and moral sciences
3. Progress and the wise man's virtue
4. The perfectible rights of men
5. Progressive politics
6. Conclusions: the Jeffersonian ethics of the living.