American Ethics: A Source Book from Edwards to DeweyAmerican 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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Page 232
... believe in that idea , unless , indeed , belief in it incidentally clashed with other greater vital benefits . " What would be better for us to believe ! " This sound very like a definition of truth . It comes very near to saying " what ...
... believe in that idea , unless , indeed , belief in it incidentally clashed with other greater vital benefits . " What would be better for us to believe ! " This sound very like a definition of truth . It comes very near to saying " what ...
Page 261
... believe them ; and of just such things is the whole fabric of the truths that we do believe in made up , -matters of fact , immediate or re- mote , as Hume said , and relations between ideas , which are either there or not there for us ...
... believe them ; and of just such things is the whole fabric of the truths that we do believe in made up , -matters of fact , immediate or re- mote , as Hume said , and relations between ideas , which are either there or not there for us ...
Page 268
... believe that we gain an ever bet- ter position towards it by systematically continuing to roll up experiences and ... believe the truth A , we escape as an incidental consequence from believing the falsehood B , it hardly ever happens ...
... believe that we gain an ever bet- ter position towards it by systematically continuing to roll up experiences and ... believe the truth A , we escape as an incidental consequence from believing the falsehood B , it hardly ever happens ...
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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