On point 3. The most apt comparison to reading someone’s chatbot conversations is to listening to someone recount a half-remembered dream. I get it, it had much portent and meaning to you but, buddy, it all just seems really dull and mundane to me.
In response to the assertion in point 1—"My first deep philosophical interest was social contract theory, and I find it hard not to see The Declaration squarely within that light"... I recommend consulting the counter-arguments presented by scholars such as Harry Jaffa, Paul Rahe, and Russell Kirk. Note: Kirk and Jaffa disagreed fiercely with each other. Their body of literature heavily critiques the assumption that early modern social contract theory exercised a monopoly over the intellectual architecture of the American Founding. Instead, these authors show the profound extent to which classical political philosophy and the older natural law tradition shaped the minds of Jefferson and the other founders, offering a compelling alternative to the Lockean or Hobbesian models.
On point 3. The most apt comparison to reading someone’s chatbot conversations is to listening to someone recount a half-remembered dream. I get it, it had much portent and meaning to you but, buddy, it all just seems really dull and mundane to me.
In response to the assertion in point 1—"My first deep philosophical interest was social contract theory, and I find it hard not to see The Declaration squarely within that light"... I recommend consulting the counter-arguments presented by scholars such as Harry Jaffa, Paul Rahe, and Russell Kirk. Note: Kirk and Jaffa disagreed fiercely with each other. Their body of literature heavily critiques the assumption that early modern social contract theory exercised a monopoly over the intellectual architecture of the American Founding. Instead, these authors show the profound extent to which classical political philosophy and the older natural law tradition shaped the minds of Jefferson and the other founders, offering a compelling alternative to the Lockean or Hobbesian models.
my assertion is about how i see it..