Thomas Jefferson's Major Philosophical Principles

Heslep, Robert D.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-5446.1966.tb00252.x

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“…Education often is seen as a basic right and requirement of citizenship. Thomas Jefferson argued as much when he said that democracy rested on an educated citizenry, and American political thought before and after has echoed this emphasis on education (24). In the segregated South, African-Americans were denied the basic right to vote through enforced illiteracy (often tied to literacy tests to vote).…”

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Varieties of Transportation Justice

Gordon

2015

Transportation Research Record

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Transportation policy has long been concerned with the achievement of direct outcomes (e.g., maximum mobility, reduced unit travel times, increased access) and with indirect outcomes (e.g., regional economic development). More recently, a distinct concern has arisen about equity and justice in transportation and, in a broad sense, about whether all transport system users have equal access and fair burden and benefit distributions. The equity policy framework in the United States rests on and is closely bound up with the post–Civil War struggle for civil rights. This paper (a) describes what American conceptions of civil rights have come to mean in U.S. policy and legal spheres, (b) discusses the extent to which transportation is seen as a civil right, (c) discusses what the limits of those rights are and how those definitions have changed over time, and (d) suggests some current issues for U.S. policy makers that, going forward, must be considered in a civil rights approach to transportation equity.

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Varieties of Transportation Justice

Gordon

2015

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The ''Reluctant'' Politician: Thomas Jefferson's Debt to Epicurus

Holowchak¹

2012

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Jefferson's philosophical and political thinking owes a great debt—one which he often acknowledged—to ancient Greek and Roman thinking. Foremost among ancient thinkers was Epicurus, the Greek whose philosophy Jefferson called “the most rational system remaining of the philosophy of the ancients, as frugal of vicious indulgence, and fruitful of virtue as the hyperbolical extravagances of his rival sects.” He refers to Epicurus in a letter to Short as “our master,” elaborates on a physics and cosmology in that is Epicurean, and states that Epicurus’ ethics contains “everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.” Moreover, though he committed himself to decades of public service, he always talked about the need to retire to attend to his own affairs and assume a life of tranquil study—the Epicurean good life. Was Jefferson an Epicurean? The aim of this paper is to show in what areas of philosophical thought Jefferson owes Epicurus an especial debt.

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Varieties of Transportation Justice: US Transportation Equity Policy and the Civil Rights Movement

Gordon

2010

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Thomas Jefferson's Major Philosophical Principles

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Varieties of Transportation Justice

Varieties of Transportation Justice

The ''Reluctant'' Politician: Thomas Jefferson's Debt to Epicurus

Varieties of Transportation Justice: US Transportation Equity Policy and the Civil Rights Movement

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