EASE OR LIFE: AN IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDE BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT

In their efforts to understand the conditions of liberty and a possibility of happiness to some degree, presupposing life or ease, two thinkers invoked a hidden hand in their formulaic diptych: Creator or Market – which? One slogan was fundamental, and the other, developmental

“Ease. Liberty.
Happiness.”
     –Adam Smith,
        economist.

“Life. Liberty.
The Pursuit of Happiness.”
     –Thomas Jefferson,
        statesman

WEALTH OF NATIONS,
DECLARATION
1776

 

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Duane Vorhees

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