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Johnnie Bernhard's avatar

Cheers to the Founders and the belief you are what you read. Feeding the mind is as important as feeding the body. Well written review.

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Douglas Osborne's avatar

On the topic of happiness as understood by the founders, Carli Conklin seems to overlap and agree with Rosen while also offering a more expansive assessment, one that includes three additional aspects or dimensions: Christianity, the English legal tradition, and the Scottish Enlightenment. I haven't read the book yet myself, but I mentored a student through a term paper last semester and she made good use of Conklin's 4-part analysis.

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Oh thanks I’ll check it out

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Henry Oliver's avatar

thanks!

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Mark M Breza's avatar

‘The Journal of Major George Washington’

is a good read and was popular in its time to the point that it is said King George lll even read it . It is not in the boring winded overly inflated lawyerly prose of the other founders .

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Mark M Breza's avatar

George Washington owned and managed slaves at 11 years of age and went on to buy 71 himself plus the others he inherited .He dropped out of school to do that .

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Rosen deals with that issue directly throughout the book

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Mark M Breza's avatar

Yes one would think owning slaves would affect one’s ethics more than reading classical Greek, whose nobles of course also owned slaves . Though he did beat some it must have affected him for upon his death he issued manumission to them .

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