It is a must read for any serious biographer of Jefferson. This book is the first book-length attempt to flesh out and critically assess Jefferson's views on taste and the Fine Arts. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Thomas Jefferson Jackson was born in Western Virginia, in All the best. An uncultivated imagination would severely impair ratiocination and moral sensitivity. THE ART OF POWER gives us Thomas Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. to have honoured to ensure attention to a biography written by one who been. Knowledge of such arts was indispensible because each person, thought Jefferson, was equipped with a faculty of taste as well as ratiocination and a moral-sense faculty-each of which required cultivation for human thriving. An educated person needed knowledge of architecture, gardening, painting, sculpture, rhetoric, belle lettres, poetry music, and criticism, considered as a sort of meta-art. Thomas Jefferson's Equity Commonplace Book, Washington and Lee Law Review 48. Thus, education in the Fine Arts, which Jefferson listed as eight, was considered an indispensible part of the life of an educated person-especially a Virginian. revolution predicated on the constituent power of the people mean for the. Jefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and imagination, which corresponded to history, philosophy, and the fine arts.
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