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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... idea of pragmatism , an idea which Dewey carried forward and liked to call by the name of instrumentalism . James had insisted that theories are instruments , and both he and Peirce maintained the most important thing about our ideas or ...
... idea of pragmatism , an idea which Dewey carried forward and liked to call by the name of instrumentalism . James had insisted that theories are instruments , and both he and Peirce maintained the most important thing about our ideas or ...
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... idea which , if believed in , would help us to lead that life , then it would be really better for us to believe in that idea , unless , indeed , belief in it incidentally clashed with other greater vital benefits . " What would be ...
... idea which , if believed in , would help us to lead that life , then it would be really better for us to believe in that idea , unless , indeed , belief in it incidentally clashed with other greater vital benefits . " What would be ...
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... idea of happiness . Happiness has often been made the object of the moralists ' contempt . Yet the most ascetic moralist has usually restored the idea of happiness under some other name , such as bliss . Goodness without happiness ...
... idea of happiness . Happiness has often been made the object of the moralists ' contempt . Yet the most ascetic moralist has usually restored the idea of happiness under some other name , such as bliss . Goodness without happiness ...
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