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Like most people, Thomas Jefferson disdained metaphysics; and like all serious thinkers, could not elude ultimate existential quandaries. He called himself a materialist. What does that mean?
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Burstein, M.L. (1993). Thomas Jefferson’s Philosophy: The Enlightenment; Ideology. In: Understanding Thomas Jefferson. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13115-0_7
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