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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... evil and pernicious , which , as it is in itself , tends to extremely pernicious consequences , and would certainly end therein , were it not that the free mercy and kindness of God interposes to prevent that issue . It would be very ...
... evil and pernicious , which , as it is in itself , tends to extremely pernicious consequences , and would certainly end therein , were it not that the free mercy and kindness of God interposes to prevent that issue . It would be very ...
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... evil , at the last time , we assumed , without special analy- sis , and as a result of ethical doctrine , the meaning of the Ought , and the sense in which the conduct of a moral agent is to be judged as good or evil according as it ...
... evil , at the last time , we assumed , without special analy- sis , and as a result of ethical doctrine , the meaning of the Ought , and the sense in which the conduct of a moral agent is to be judged as good or evil according as it ...
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... evil deeds . But that wherein I rejoice is to have thus indicated to me the common human task of undertaking , in company with my fellows , to make good just this evil . I do not go out of my way to learn even this sort of truth . For ...
... evil deeds . But that wherein I rejoice is to have thus indicated to me the common human task of undertaking , in company with my fellows , to make good just this evil . I do not go out of my way to learn even this sort of truth . For ...
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