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 and belief of men depend not on their own will but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds , that Almighty God has created the mind free , and manifested His supreme will that free it shall remain by making it ...
... opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds , that Almighty God has created the mind free , and manifested His supreme will that free it shall remain by making it ...
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... opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by lay- ing upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he ...
... opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by lay- ing upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he ...
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... opinions will be formed . As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self - love , his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other ; and the former will be objects to which the latter will ...
... opinions will be formed . As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self - love , his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other ; and the former will be objects to which the latter will ...
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