HUMANITIES, the quarterly magazine of National Endowment for the Humanities (@NEHgov).
"Father of Liberalism" John Locke, author of "Two Treatises of Government," among other works of republicanism, was born #OTD in 1632. Locke's oeuvre interrogated the limits of human understanding. Peter Gibbon on “Discovering Childhood”: https://t.co/Yq1DXqXnmd https://t.co/DzlYIKJjiS
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I would choose three books that teach about the self, about America, and about democracy: "The Consolation of Philosophy" (524 AD, Boethius); "Domestic Manners of the Americans (Fanny Trollope 1832); "Two Treatises of Government" (1679, John Locke) https://t.co/dG0OO0irPK