A More Perfect Copy: David Rittenhouse and the Reproduction of Republican Virtue

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 757
Author(s):  
William Huntting Howell
Keyword(s):  
David Rittenhouse ◽  
Republican Virtue

scholarly journals David Rittenhouse Inglis

Physics Today ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 109-110
Author(s):  
Stanley S. Hanna ◽  
Dieter Kurath ◽  
Gerald A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
David Rittenhouse

From Republican Virtue to Technology of Political Power: Three Episodes of Czech Nonpolitical Politics

2000 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
AVIEZER TUCKER ◽  
KAREL JAKEŠ ◽  
MARIAN KIŠŠ ◽  
IVANA KUPCOVÁ ◽  
IVO LOSMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Republican Virtue

David Rittenhouse: Logarithms and Leisure

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick A. Homann
Keyword(s):  
David Rittenhouse

The Eighteenth-Century Debate

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.G.A. Pocock ◽  
Richard Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Humanist Tradition ◽  
The One ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Republican Virtue

This chapter explores the reasons as to why the inherited complex of ideas concerning republican virtue and its place in social time was transmitted into the eighteenth century in the form so little changed and yet so radically challenged. It shows that the American Revolution and Constitution in some sense form the last act of the civic Renaissance, and that the ideas of the civic humanist tradition provide an important key to the paradoxes of modern tensions between individual self-awareness on the one hand and consciousness of society, property, and history on the other. The American founders occupied a “Machiavellian moment”—a crisis in the relations between personality and society, virtue and corruption—but at the same time stood at a moment in history when that problem was being either left behind or admitted insoluble.

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