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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... interest , a manufacturing interest , a mercan- tile interest , a moneyed interest , with many lesser interests , grow up of necessity in civilized nations , and divide them into different classes , actuated by different sentiments and ...
... interest , a manufacturing interest , a mercan- tile interest , a moneyed interest , with many lesser interests , grow up of necessity in civilized nations , and divide them into different classes , actuated by different sentiments and ...
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... interest . " Starting from the premisses that unless there is interest in an object or idea , there is no motive force , they end with the conclusion that even when a person claims to be acting from principle or from a sense of duty ...
... interest . " Starting from the premisses that unless there is interest in an object or idea , there is no motive force , they end with the conclusion that even when a person claims to be acting from principle or from a sense of duty ...
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... interest , preference , and categorical choice . It leaves to psy- chology and history a free field for the description of moral phenomena . It has no interest in slipping far - fetched and incredible myths beneath the facts of na- ture ...
... interest , preference , and categorical choice . It leaves to psy- chology and history a free field for the description of moral phenomena . It has no interest in slipping far - fetched and incredible myths beneath the facts of na- ture ...
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