📚 13 Books mentioned in "Who Was John Adams? | C. Bradley Thompson | POLITICS | Rubin Report" of The Rubin Report

The first is Newton's Principia Mathematica and the second is John Locke's essay concerning human understanding

Mentioned as one of two books that significantly influenced John Adams at Harvard, introducing him to the possibility of a secular science of ethics.

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Benjamin Franklin when he was the same age as Adams decides that he wants to achieve moral perfection and you can read about this in in Franklin's autobiography which and if you think about it I mean this is extraordinary

Mentioned as a source to read about Benjamin Franklin's efforts towards moral perfection, drawing a parallel to John Adams.

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which is interesting if you if you read his diary his autobiography all of his political writings and more

Mentioned as a source for understanding John Adams's moral views and teachings, and later as a vehicle for his self-improvement.

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Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle Nicomachean ethics Cicero cicero's de o'fee key Seneca and epictetus

Mentioned as an author whose works John Adams recommended for teaching his son about self-governance, representing ancient Greek moral philosophy.

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or what it for instance what are the books that one can read Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle Nicomachean ethics Cicero cicero's de o'fee key Seneca and epictetus

Mentioned as a book that John Adams did not emphasize when teaching his son about self-governance, contrasting it with classical moral philosophers.

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we've linked to John Adams and the spirit of Liberty as well as the revolutionary writings of John Adams right down below

Mentioned by the host as a resource linked below the video, likely a book by the guest about John Adams.

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he wrote what I think is still to this day the most importance certainly I think the most brilliant Revolutionary tract that was published it was the title is the no Vangelis letters

Described as the most brilliant and important Revolutionary tract published, written by Adams, arguing against Parliament's authority in the colonies.

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he's introduced to two books that that change his life The first is Newton's Principia Mathematica and the second is John Locke's essay concerning human understanding

Mentioned as one of two books that significantly influenced John Adams at Harvard, introducing him to universal physical laws.

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Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle Nicomachean ethics Cicero cicero's de o'fee key Seneca and epictetus

Mentioned as one of the books John Adams recommended for teaching his son about self-governance, representing ancient Greek moral philosophy.

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Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle Nicomachean ethics Cicero cicero's de o'fee key Seneca and epictetus

Mentioned as an author whose works John Adams recommended for teaching his son about self-governance, representing ancient Roman moral philosophy.

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so the passage that you just read and much of what you reference here that this was all in his biography so he was just writing this to himself

Mentioned as a source containing passages from Adams's diary.

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other than Tom Paine's Common Sense it was the most influential pamphlet written during I think the Revolutionary period

Mentioned as a highly influential pamphlet from the Revolutionary period, used as a comparison point for Adams's 'thoughts on government'.

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Adams was always fascinated with this ancient fable called the choice of Hercules which was first told in Xenophon's memorabilia and then was captured on canvas in I think the 16th century by the by the painter anabolic kurachi

Mentioned as the source of the ancient fable 'the choice of Hercules' that fascinated John Adams.

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