“John Burt’s Lincoln and Process Thought”

The purpose of the present article is to examine the processual character of Abraham Lincoln’s politically liberal thought. This examination will attempt to build on the magisterial study of Lincoln by John Burt and on Burt’s use of the thought of John Rawls and H. L. A. Hart. Lincoln will also be compared and contrasted with process thinkers like Charles Hartshorne and Alfred North Whitehead, especially in terms of Lincoln’s capacity for growth in his ethical and political thought.