The Founding Fathers as epicurean atheists
Review of Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart
All too often, philosophy books are the driest of academic reading experiences, advancing obscure proofs and arguments ridiculously disconnected from the real world and in completely awful prose. What Stewart accomplishes is to embed the philosophical convictions of the Founding Fathers into a riveting narrative of the formulation of the Declaration of …
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