The Spirit of Modern Republicanism

The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke

By: Thomas L. Pangle

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Paperback | 15 October 1990 | Edition Number 1

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The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed. Thomas L. Pangle argues that the Founders had a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecedented commitment to private and economic liberties. It is in the thought of John Locke that Pangle finds the fullest elaboration of the principles supporting the Founders' moral vision.

"A work of extraordinary ambition, written with great intensity. . . . [Pangle offers] a trenchant analysis of Locke's writings, designed to demonstrate their remarkable originality and to clarify by doing so as much as the objective predicament as the conscious intentions of the Founding Fathers themselves."—John Dunn, Times Higher Education Supplement

"A forcefully argued study of the Founding Fathers' debt to Locke. . . . What distinguishes Pangle's study from the dozens of books which have challenged or elaborated upon the republican revision is the sharpness with which he exposes the errors of the revisionists while at the same time leaving something of substantive value for the reader to consider."—Joyce Appleby, Canadian Journal of History

"Breathtaking in its daring and novelty. . . . Pangle's book is tense and tenacious, a stunning meditation on America's political culture."—John Patrick Diggins, Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
A Critique of the Leading Interpretations of the Political Theory Informing the Founding	p. 5
The Old Orthodoxy and Its Demise	p. 7
Marx and Weber	p. 11
The Hartz Thesis	p. 25
"Classical Republicanism"	p. 28
The Framers' Conception of Civic Virtue, and the Philosophic Contests Out of Which That Conception Emerges	p. 41
The New "Publius"	p. 43
The Classical Analysis of Civic Virtue	p. 48
The Modern Rivals of the Classics	p. 72
The Eclipse of the Intellectual Virtues	p. 74
The New Meaning of the Active Virtues	p. 89
The New Basis of "Legitimate Government"	p. 112
Liberty and Human Nature	p. 117
The Unanswered Questions	p. 124
The Lockean Conception of Human Nature	p. 129
The Unifying Thread of the Two Treatises	p. 131
Property	p. 141
The Problem of the Family	p. 172
The Rational Basis of Morality	p. 184
The Divine and Human Supports for Justice	p. 198
The Rational Family	p. 230
The "State of Nature"	p. 244
The Rational Commonwealth	p. 252
Rational Freedom and Human Dignity	p. 262
Conclusion	p. 276
Notes	p. 281
Bibliography of Modern Works Cited	p. 315
Index	p. 329
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