Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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Antoine Destutt de Tracy
Thomas Jefferson was, perhaps unknowingly, using “the language of Stoic philosophy” when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, with its claim that “all men were created equal”; 27 the masculine language (“men”) is very much in tune with the Stoic emphasis on manly virtue (virtus) and on a model of social equality that has few implications for
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