Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson on Taste and Morality

Type:: paper
Date:: March 28, 2026
In:: Metaethics

The copy of your Second thoughts on Instinctive impulses with the letter accompanying it, was received just as I was setting out on a journey to ... » Go

Thomas Jefferson on General Revelation and Design in Nature

Type:: quote
Date:: April 11, 1823
In:: Uncategorized

On the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe, in it’s parts general or particular, it ... » Go

Thomas Jefferson on Hostility to Tyranny

Type:: quote
Date:: September 23, 1800
In:: Law and Government

I promised you a letter on Christianity, which I have not forgotten. On the contrary, it is because I have reflected on it, that I ... » Go

Thomas Jefferson on Reason, Tribunal and Oracle

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1787
In:: Faith + Reason

Shake off all fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are severely crouched. Fix Reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal ... » Go

The Deleted Condemnation of Slavery in The Declaration of Independence

Type:: quote
Date:: November 17, 1776
In:: Human Rights

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people ... » Go