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Nash, David. “The Gain from Thomas Paine.”
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Following the interesting dynamic between religion and the state, David Nash’s piece, “The Gain from Thomas Paine”, highlights the life of Thomas Paine, social theorist, author, and revolutionary, though perhaps not obvious to all. Writing Age of Reason, Rights of Man, among others, Paine “anticipated modern ideas on human rights, atheism, and rationalism”.17 After his pamphlet, Common Sense, premiered in 1776 Paine joined the colonists fight, eventually taking place in the revolutionists of France becoming elected to the National Convention. Despite his seat as an elected to revolution Paine held strongly to his unique views, in example advocating for the trial of Louis XIV but speaking out against his execution, a view perhaps rather unpopular during the time. Another rather controversial idea that Paine coined was the concept of rationalism, stemming from the idea that “facts [appear] implausible and textual consistency they would require of they were [true] is lacking”.18 He most famously applied this reasoning to the work of the Bible, explaining that “a moral God who had created the universe as it was bore no relation to the God portrayed in the Bible”.19 Nash’s piece takes into account the life of Thomas Paine by highlighting the idea that the other pieces in this unit have brought up – that American history is not clean in the atrocities it has committed against outside groups, but also within its own. Directory: 2015 2015 -> Executive Summary 2015 -> Final review Sheet: Global History I and II topic: Historical concepts/Prehistory 2015 -> Lesson plan template 2015 -> The heart and mind of a steward leader 2015 -> Adolf hitler 2015 -> Running head: integrating african american vernacular english 2015 -> Artificial Intelligence 2015 -> 8 shocking predictions for life after 2020 from Google's genius futurist 2015 -> Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's Duel 2015 -> Communications 2 from the fantail 3 shipmate forum 4 Download 314.5 Kb. Share with your friends:
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