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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... feels them ; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply ... feel or do . In such a case we have a world with twice as much of the ethical quality in it as our moral solitude ...
... feels them ; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply ... feel or do . In such a case we have a world with twice as much of the ethical quality in it as our moral solitude ...
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... feel that when religious faith expresses itself thus , in the lan- guage of the gamingtable , it is put to its last trumps . Surely Pascal's own per- sonal belief in masses and holy water had far other springs ; and this celebrated page ...
... feel that when religious faith expresses itself thus , in the lan- guage of the gamingtable , it is put to its last trumps . Surely Pascal's own per- sonal belief in masses and holy water had far other springs ; and this celebrated page ...
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... feel antipathies for certain other human beings very much as any young child does - namely , quite capri- ciously just as he will also feel all sorts of capricious likings for people . But train a man first to give names to his ...
... feel antipathies for certain other human beings very much as any young child does - namely , quite capri- ciously just as he will also feel all sorts of capricious likings for people . But train a man first to give names to his ...
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