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A peculiar felicity of expression: The pursuit of happiness and the American founding.

机译：表达方式的特殊之处：对幸福的追求和美国的成立。

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The traditional scholarly consensus holds that the Declaration of Independence owes much of its argument to the influence of John Locke's social contract liberalism. And yet, a dominant view of the relation between the right to the pursuit of happiness and the rest of the document has yet to emerge. An extended treatment of this right has not been published for fifty years, and even the most sustained, thoughtful research too often relies on what one key interpreter has said on the subject---whether the phrase's immediate author or a prominent political philosopher taken to be decisive.;This study considers how the right to the pursuit of happiness was understood as part of American public thought at the time the country was founded. It looks for clues within the Declaration itself and from a wide range of public and private statements made by the document's signers and other citizens, from the American Revolution to the early years of the republic. I conclude with some thoughts on what the pursuit of happiness means for the character of American politics, both at the time of the founding and today.;In organizing my study, I have taken Thomas Jefferson on his own testimony when discussing the Declaration, that the argument contained there was not some private eccentricity but "an expression of the American mind." I probe whether the historical record with regard to the pursuit of happiness bears out Jefferson's description. Although I readily admit that there are important distinctions to be made in the political thought of the founding era's most prominent men---differences that quickly multiply as more names are included---this study has purposely emphasized what these men held in common. This approach is not only appropriate when considering questions of political ends rather than means, but only in this way can we find a definition of the right to the pursuit of happiness that may be regarded as widely accepted at the time, and that may be considered truly authoritative for the American political tradition.
机译：传统的学术共识认为，《独立宣言》在很大程度上归功于约翰·洛克的社会契约自由主义的影响。然而，关于追求幸福的权利与文件其余部分之间关系的主流观点尚未出现。对该权利的扩展处理尚未发表五十年，即使是最持久，最有思想的研究也常常取决于一位关键解释者对此主题的看法-无论该词组的直接作者还是一位著名的政治哲学家都将其视作。该研究考虑了追求幸福的权利如何被理解为该国成立时美国公众思想的一部分。它从《美国独立战争》到共和国成立初期，从《宣言》本身以及该文件的签署人和其他公民发表的各种公开和私人声明中寻找线索。在创立之初和今天，我对追求幸福对美国政治特征的意义有一些思考。在组织研究时，我在讨论《宣言》时以托马斯·杰斐逊为证词，该论点包含了一些私人的怪异，而是“美国思想的一种表达”。我探讨了关于追求幸福的历史记录是否证实了杰斐逊的描述。尽管我很容易承认在建国初期最杰出的人的政治思想中有重要的区别-随着包括更多名字的人之间的差异迅速扩大-这项研究故意强调了这些人的共同点。这种方法不仅适用于考虑政治目的而不是手段的问题，而且只有通过这种方式，我们才能找到追求幸福的权利的定义，该定义在当时可能被广泛接受，并且可以被认为是真正具有美国政治传统的权威。

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  • 作者

    Kienker, John B.;

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    The Claremont Graduate University.;

  • 授予单位 The Claremont Graduate University.;
  • 学科 American Studies.;Political Science General.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 334 p.
  • 总页数 334
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 政治理论;
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:38:31

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