Phase 1

¶ Declaration of Independence • Source: National Archives
¶ Thomas Jefferson’s “original Rough draft” of Declaration of Independence • Source: Library of Congress • Your focus #1: the two adjectives Jefferson uses to describe “rights” in second paragraph • Your focus #2; content and fate of paragraph beginning “he has waged cruel war against human nature itself”
¶ Episode of podcast, “The Secret Life of Books,” centered on America’s Declaration of Independence at 250 • Hosts: Sophie Gee, PhD, professor of English, Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, MBE, Sydney, Australia-based arts and media consultant • You can listen and watch on YouTube or lisiten on many podcast platforms
¶ Francis Hutcheson’s biography • Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography
¶ Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) • Source: Online Library of Liberty • Your focus #1: instances of the the word “alien” and words containing “alien” (e.g., “alienable”) • Your focus #2: instances of the word “happiness”
¶ Francis Hutcheson’s A System of Moral Philosophy in Three Books (1755; published posthumously) • Source: Online Library of Liberty • Your focus #1: instances of the the word “alien” and words containing “alien” (e.g., “alienable”) • Your focus #2: instances of the word “happiness”
¶ Dr. Keeley’s Francis Hutcheson presentation