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John Burt
Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism [EPUB ebook]
Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

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In their famous debates, Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict like slavery strained democracy s commitment to rule by both consent and principle. What conscience demands and what it can persuade others to agree to are not always the same. Ultimately, this tragic limitation of liberalism led Lincoln to war.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 832 ● ISBN 9780674067332 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2609376 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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