In reference to “Our Declaration” by Danielle Allen, it is possible for people to acheive strong commitments for themselves and the right of other people without having faith or belief in a certain God. Allen believes that one doesn’t need to share a theistic point of view to understand the declaration and rather implies that the God mentioned in the Declaration is different from the God mentioned in the Bible or yet the God in Christianity. Jefferson on the other hand believes that the rights we recieve, which he mentions in his Declaration, being bestowed on us by the Almighty. Jefferson’s Declaration was created after the colonists moved from Europe to America in protest fo rejecting the King’s reign and rule of power, which consisted
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She supports this claim by stating “To understand this shared status, then, we need to udnerstand two things. We need to know what it means to be “endowed” with something and who or what this Creator is that has endowed us with these rights.” (29.172). In this quote, Jefferson emntions that the Creator gave everybody certain unalienable rights, which Allen analyzes as that we don’t share the same wealth or power but rather we all share a similar status and in accordance with the idea of “All men are created equal”, Allen believes this to be part of the truth. During the beginning, when colonists were forming a “seperate yet equal” state, the equality played into context for the status that everyone shard. She then goes on to dissect the word “endowed”. The word “endowed” is a Latin word for dowry, where a woman is given dowry for herself after marriage and if ehr husband dies or divorces her within the course of the marriage, the dowry returns with the woman. She connects that to the rights we get from God being the dowry a bride receives and us not seperating ourselves from these rights no matter the circumstances. Despite this analogy, Allen is riddled witht he idea of how people come into life and how they are just born with these rights from God as soon as they are born. The Declaration of Jefferson refernces to “Nature’s God” which Allen sees that humans are born from nature and since nature is good therefore our nature is relatively good as well too. The good nature therefore in return turns humans towards politics and the inalienable rights are used to carry out self- protection with humans being their own protectors, at the end getting peace as a final gift from the Nature’s creator. This definetly doesn’t tie in to the God of the Bible where a man and a woman are created differently and have different duties and therefore different rights to
She supports this claim by stating “To understand this shared status, then, we need to udnerstand two things. We need to know what it means to be “endowed” with something and who or what this Creator is that has endowed us with these rights.” (29.172). In this quote, Jefferson emntions that the Creator gave everybody certain unalienable rights, which Allen analyzes as that we don’t share the same wealth or power but rather we all share a similar status and in accordance with the idea of “All men are created equal”, Allen believes this to be part of the truth. During the beginning, when colonists were forming a “seperate yet equal” state, the equality played into context for the status that everyone shard. She then goes on to dissect the word “endowed”. The word “endowed” is a Latin word for dowry, where a woman is given dowry for herself after marriage and if ehr husband dies or divorces her within the course of the marriage, the dowry returns with the woman. She connects that to the rights we get from God being the dowry a bride receives and us not seperating ourselves from these rights no matter the circumstances. Despite this analogy, Allen is riddled witht he idea of how people come into life and how they are just born with these rights from God as soon as they are born. The Declaration of Jefferson refernces to “Nature’s God” which Allen sees that humans are born from nature and since nature is good therefore our nature is relatively good as well too. The good nature therefore in return turns humans towards politics and the inalienable rights are used to carry out self- protection with humans being their own protectors, at the end getting peace as a final gift from the Nature’s creator. This definetly doesn’t tie in to the God of the Bible where a man and a woman are created differently and have different duties and therefore different rights to