The Haunted Philosophe James Madison, Republicanism, and Slavery
, by Kester, Scott J.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780739121740 | 073912174X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/28/2008
James Madison was a man of the Enlightenment and a believer in progress. He viewed America's Revolution as not simply a breaking away from the despotic British Empire, but a breaking away from the Old World monarchial system represented by that empire. He saw the American Revolution as a process whereby man was trying to become free. Although he used Christian vocabulary in his writing, there is in his correspondence an indication of a shift from a Christian kind of mental framework to a Deism common to Enlightenment philosophes. While Madison's papers lack a sense that salvation would come through Christ, they are marked by a strong sense of salvation through republicanism.