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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... hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment . The truth of this observation may appear by the following considerations . 1. There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any mo- ment . Men's hands cannot be ...
... hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment . The truth of this observation may appear by the following considerations . 1. There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any mo- ment . Men's hands cannot be ...
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... hand ; they stand waiting for them , like greedy hungry lions that see their prey , and expect to have it , but are for the present kept back . If God should withdraw his hand , by which they are restrained , they would in one moment ...
... hand ; they stand waiting for them , like greedy hungry lions that see their prey , and expect to have it , but are for the present kept back . If God should withdraw his hand , by which they are restrained , they would in one moment ...
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... hand . I speak , of course , here of the purely judging mind . For purposes of discovery such indifference is to be less highly recommended , and science would be far less advanced than she is if the passionate desires of individuals to ...
... hand . I speak , of course , here of the purely judging mind . For purposes of discovery such indifference is to be less highly recommended , and science would be far less advanced than she is if the passionate desires of individuals to ...
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