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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... force , as to become itself a new center . The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force , that not enough remains for the animal functions , hardly enough for health ; so that , in the second generation , if the like genius ...
... force , as to become itself a new center . The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force , that not enough remains for the animal functions , hardly enough for health ; so that , in the second generation , if the like genius ...
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... force is real and elemental . There is no manufacturing a strong will . There must be a pound to balance a pound . Where power is shown in will , it must rest on the universal force . Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a ...
... force is real and elemental . There is no manufacturing a strong will . There must be a pound to balance a pound . Where power is shown in will , it must rest on the universal force . Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a ...
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... force of sunbeams . A personal influence towers up in memory only worthy , and we gladly forget numbers , money , climate , gravitation , and the rest of Fate . We can afford to allow the limitation , if we know it is the meter of the ...
... force of sunbeams . A personal influence towers up in memory only worthy , and we gladly forget numbers , money , climate , gravitation , and the rest of Fate . We can afford to allow the limitation , if we know it is the meter of the ...
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