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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... matter of love , it is inherently connected with feeling and not a matter of argument or proof . Dewey , by contrast , refused to allow a total split or division between ethics and science , between values and facts , or between the ...
... matter of love , it is inherently connected with feeling and not a matter of argument or proof . Dewey , by contrast , refused to allow a total split or division between ethics and science , between values and facts , or between the ...
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... matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care , lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object , and catch a stain which can never be wiped away . . . . If [ a ] belief has been accepted on ...
... matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care , lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object , and catch a stain which can never be wiped away . . . . If [ a ] belief has been accepted on ...
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... matter of opinion , -ways entirely different , and yet ways about whose difference the theory of knowledge seems hitherto to have shown very little concern . We must know the truth ; and we must avoid error , these are our first and ...
... matter of opinion , -ways entirely different , and yet ways about whose difference the theory of knowledge seems hitherto to have shown very little concern . We must know the truth ; and we must avoid error , these are our first and ...
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Preface XV | 6 |
William Penn | 12 |
Jonathan Edwards | 25 |
Urheberrecht | |
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