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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... intelligence ; the other is that the question in its very asking makes assumptions that render the question meaningless . The latter alternative is unerringly pointed to in the celebrated case of design versus chance . Once admit that ...
... intelligence ; the other is that the question in its very asking makes assumptions that render the question meaningless . The latter alternative is unerringly pointed to in the celebrated case of design versus chance . Once admit that ...
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... intelligence of men and the order of the world they live in . It is customary to call the one teleological and the other mechanical , to call the one spiritual and the other materialistic . The first attitude takes it pretty definitely ...
... intelligence of men and the order of the world they live in . It is customary to call the one teleological and the other mechanical , to call the one spiritual and the other materialistic . The first attitude takes it pretty definitely ...
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... intelligence consists in accepting the inspired state- ment of this order . Scientific method has no vision , given in the mount , of a per- fected order of society , but it does carry with it the assumption that the intelli- gence ...
... intelligence consists in accepting the inspired state- ment of this order . Scientific method has no vision , given in the mount , of a per- fected order of society , but it does carry with it the assumption that the intelli- gence ...
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