Thomas Jefferson · Politics
Jefferson was the Enlightenment made flesh - a statesman who believed reason, science, and free inquiry could remake politics, and who swore eternal hostility against every tyranny over the human mind.
You learned that Jefferson placed reason and free inquiry at the center of both his politics and his hopes for humanity. In your own words, why did he believe a free mind and a free society rise and fall together?
Leads to Thomas Paine.
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