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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... beauty or excellency . It is not all beauty that is called virtue ; for instance , not the beauty of a building , of a flower , or of the rainbow ; but some beauty belonging to beings that have perception and will . It is not all beauty ...
... beauty or excellency . It is not all beauty that is called virtue ; for instance , not the beauty of a building , of a flower , or of the rainbow ; but some beauty belonging to beings that have perception and will . It is not all beauty ...
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... beauty of the qualities and exercises of the heart , or those actions which proceed from them . So that when it is ... beauty . By a particular beauty , I mean that by which a thing appears beautiful when considered only with regard to ...
... beauty of the qualities and exercises of the heart , or those actions which proceed from them . So that when it is ... beauty . By a particular beauty , I mean that by which a thing appears beautiful when considered only with regard to ...
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... beauty to be found throughout the whole creation , is but the reflection of the diffused beams of that Being who hath an infinite fullness of brightness and glory . God's beauty is infinitely more valuable than that of all other beings ...
... beauty to be found throughout the whole creation , is but the reflection of the diffused beams of that Being who hath an infinite fullness of brightness and glory . God's beauty is infinitely more valuable than that of all other beings ...
Inhalt
Preface | 6 |
5 | 12 |
Germantown Friends | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
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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