Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a
consummate immoralist. Yet he had a keen interest in morality and
most of his reading-when he was not immersed in politics-was for
moral study. Jefferson once told his physician, Vine Utley, that he
seldom went to sleep without first reading something morally
inspiring. Some Jefferson scholars consider him at best a moral
dilettante with incoherent views. Others see him as a Stoic,
interested in virtue as measured by intentions and outcomes, who in
later life became an Epicurean, weighing pleasure versus ends.
Drawing on a careful reading of his writings and an examination of
his known readings on morality, this study argues that Jefferson
developed early a consistent moral sense-Stoical in essence and
focused on his own moral improvement-and maintained it throughout
his life.
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