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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... opinions of men are not the object of civil government , nor under its jurisdiction ; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on ...
... opinions of men are not the object of civil government , nor under its jurisdiction ; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on ...
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... opinions . He saves as much of it as he can , for in this matter of belief we are all extreme conservatives . So he tries to change first this opinion , and then that ( for they resist change very variously ) , until at last some new ...
... opinions . He saves as much of it as he can , for in this matter of belief we are all extreme conservatives . So he tries to change first this opinion , and then that ( for they resist change very variously ) , until at last some new ...
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... opinion of the land has been but too willing to deliver the solution of a wearisome problem into his hands , and say , " If that is all you and your race ask , take it . " Among his own people , however , Mr. Washington has encountered ...
... opinion of the land has been but too willing to deliver the solution of a wearisome problem into his hands , and say , " If that is all you and your race ask , take it . " Among his own people , however , Mr. Washington has encountered ...
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