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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... authority of scripture , the privilege of nature , the principles of common reason , the well - being of government , and apprehensions of the greatest personages of former and latter ages . Persecution and Reason We farther say that ...
... authority of scripture , the privilege of nature , the principles of common reason , the well - being of government , and apprehensions of the greatest personages of former and latter ages . Persecution and Reason We farther say that ...
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... authority , mediately and immediately , from this origin ; therefore , Resolved , That such laws that conflict , in any way , with the true and substan- tial happiness of women , are contrary to the great precept of nature and of no ...
... authority , mediately and immediately , from this origin ; therefore , Resolved , That such laws that conflict , in any way , with the true and substan- tial happiness of women , are contrary to the great precept of nature and of no ...
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... authority as Commander - in - chief of the armed forces . Though this was justified as a military and political decision , it had con- siderable moral force as well ; it was influential in bringing the support of European public opinion ...
... authority as Commander - in - chief of the armed forces . Though this was justified as a military and political decision , it had con- siderable moral force as well ; it was influential in bringing the support of European public opinion ...
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