圖書標籤: 政治學 隨筆 自由 美國 社會學 平等 曆史 EAS
发表于2024-11-29
Our Declaration pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
In just 1,337 words, the Declaration of Independence altered the course of history. Written in 1776, it is the most profound document in the history of government since the Magna Carta, signed nearly 800 years ago in 1215. Yet despite its paramount importance, the Declaration, curiously, is rarely read from start to finish—much less understood.
Troubled by the fact that so few Americans actually know what it says, Danielle Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship, set out to explore the arguments of the Declaration, reading it with both adult night students and University of Chicago undergraduates. Keenly aware that the Declaration is riddled with contradictions—liberating some while subjugating slaves and Native Americans—Allen and her students nonetheless came to see that the Declaration makes a coherent and riveting argument about equality. They found not a historical text that required memorization, but an animating force that could and did transform the course of their everyday lives.
In an "uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text," Our Declaration now brings these insights to the general reader, illuminating the "three great themes of the Declaration: equality, liberty, and the abiding power of language" (David M. Kennedy). Vividly evoking the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen describes the challenges faced by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston—the "Committee of Five" who had to write a document that reflected the aspirations of a restive population and forge an unprecedented social contract. Although the focus is usually on Jefferson, Allen restores credit not only to John Adams and Richard Henry Lee but also to clerk Timothy Matlack and printer Mary Katherine Goddard.
Allen also restores the astonishing text of the Declaration itself. Its list of self-evident truths does not end, as so many think, with our individual right to the "pursuit of happiness" but with the collective right of the people to reform government so that it will "effect their Safety and Happiness." The sentence laying out the self-evident truths leads us from the individual to the community—from our individual rights to what we can achieve only together, as a community constituted by bonds of equality. Challenging so much of our conventional political wisdom, Our Declaration boldly makes the case that we cannot have freedom as individuals without equality among us as a people.
With its cogent analysis and passionate advocacy, Our Declaration thrillingly affirms the continuing relevance of America’s founding text, ultimately revealing what democracy actually means and what it asks of us.
Danielle Allen, a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, is a political philosopher widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America. She lives in Princeton with her husband and two children.
一份基於平等視角的對獨立宣言的逐句解讀。乾貨太少,但作者提瞭個很有意思的問題:自由和平等的關係是此消彼長還是相輔相成?要迴答這個問題,自然要問“人人生而平等”是指什麼方麵的平等?目前腦海中的答案是“獲取自由的權利”的平等,而政府是“自由”的保障,“自由的保障”是“獲取自由的權利”的一個子集,因此人人應該享有平等的政治權利。從這個係統看,美國憲法修正案其實就是在不斷界定哪些因素影響人“獲取自由的權利”,從政治延伸到宗教、言論等等。此外,作者腦洞實在太大,比如獨立宣言第一句中的" in the course of human events..",作者論述course的拉丁文願意是航道,有航道就有河流,河流由重力産生方嚮,曆史也是有重心而大勢所趨...這種方式來解讀文本怎能讓人不吐槽?
評分……pre-read永遠是莫名的東西。曆史文本分析真的超怕教條,逐句翻譯,其實還是加入今人的理念去,尤其撞上選舉瞭……作者提齣瞭equality的五個定義,但我還是沒明白這怎麼和equality對立和不同觀點的碰撞。有種被教授講睡前故事的感覺。以及上一個版本作者還在Pton這次就去瞭某H哦科科
評分一份基於平等視角的對獨立宣言的逐句解讀。乾貨太少,但作者提瞭個很有意思的問題:自由和平等的關係是此消彼長還是相輔相成?要迴答這個問題,自然要問“人人生而平等”是指什麼方麵的平等?目前腦海中的答案是“獲取自由的權利”的平等,而政府是“自由”的保障,“自由的保障”是“獲取自由的權利”的一個子集,因此人人應該享有平等的政治權利。從這個係統看,美國憲法修正案其實就是在不斷界定哪些因素影響人“獲取自由的權利”,從政治延伸到宗教、言論等等。此外,作者腦洞實在太大,比如獨立宣言第一句中的" in the course of human events..",作者論述course的拉丁文願意是航道,有航道就有河流,河流由重力産生方嚮,曆史也是有重心而大勢所趨...這種方式來解讀文本怎能讓人不吐槽?
評分……pre-read永遠是莫名的東西。曆史文本分析真的超怕教條,逐句翻譯,其實還是加入今人的理念去,尤其撞上選舉瞭……作者提齣瞭equality的五個定義,但我還是沒明白這怎麼和equality對立和不同觀點的碰撞。有種被教授講睡前故事的感覺。以及上一個版本作者還在Pton這次就去瞭某H哦科科
評分……pre-read永遠是莫名的東西。曆史文本分析真的超怕教條,逐句翻譯,其實還是加入今人的理念去,尤其撞上選舉瞭……作者提齣瞭equality的五個定義,但我還是沒明白這怎麼和equality對立和不同觀點的碰撞。有種被教授講睡前故事的感覺。以及上一個版本作者還在Pton這次就去瞭某H哦科科
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Our Declaration pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024