American Ethics: A Source Book from Edwards to DeweyUniversity Press of America, 2000 - 501 Seiten American Ethics: A Source Book From Edwards to Dewey presents a rich collection of 70 source readings in American Ethics from the early Puritans and their foremost spokesman Jonathan Edwards to the mid-twentieth century, the time of John Dewey's pragmatism and naturalism. Ethics has both a theoretical and practical interest, relating it directly to politics, religion, economics, science, and in fact all aspects of culture or social life. |
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... American ethics in its written record is over 300 years old . From Puritan beginnings in early seventeenth century New England , American ethics has encompassed all the theories , practices and con- troversies of countless individuals ...
... American ethics in its written record is over 300 years old . From Puritan beginnings in early seventeenth century New England , American ethics has encompassed all the theories , practices and con- troversies of countless individuals ...
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... American declaration of independence helped prepare the way for the American revolution . In The American Crisis , Paine calls for patriotic struggle and equates the British treatment of America with slavery . The Rights of Man was ...
... American declaration of independence helped prepare the way for the American revolution . In The American Crisis , Paine calls for patriotic struggle and equates the British treatment of America with slavery . The Rights of Man was ...
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... American philosophy , but represents the first truly original American thinking on ethics and other topics to have a major and lasting influence throughout the world . Early American ethics including Puritanism , enlightenment thought ...
... American philosophy , but represents the first truly original American thinking on ethics and other topics to have a major and lasting influence throughout the world . Early American ethics including Puritanism , enlightenment thought ...
Inhalt
Preface | 6 |
5 | 12 |
Germantown Friends | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absolute action American Anne Bradstreet argument beauty believe benevolence called cause character Christian civil consciousness consequences Cotton Mather Declaration definist fallacy Devil Dewey divine divine grace doctrine Emerson Enlightenment eternal ethics evil existence experience expression fact faith Fate following selection freedom give God's grace hand hath heart hell human idea ideal Indian individual intellectual intelligence interest James Jefferson John Dewey Jonathan Edwards Josiah Royce justice live loyalty magnanimity mankind means mind moral nation natural rights naturalistic fallacy never object opinions original sin persons philosophy political practical pragmatism present principle problem Puritan question race reason religion religious Royce sense slavery slaves social society soul spirit tendency things Thomas Paine thought tion Transcendentalism Transcendentalist true virtue truth universe virtuous whole William William Ellery Channing William Penn woman women words