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 51
... character than fickleness and unsteadiness . We commonly join together the characters of weak and changeable . 5. In the last place , it belongs to greatness to bear sufferings with fortitude and patience . This is a kindred quality to ...
... character than fickleness and unsteadiness . We commonly join together the characters of weak and changeable . 5. In the last place , it belongs to greatness to bear sufferings with fortitude and patience . This is a kindred quality to ...
Page 152
... character . Ducks take to the water , eagles to the sky , waders to the sea margin , hunters to the forest , clerks to counting - rooms , soldiers to the frontier . Thus events grow on the same stem with persons ; are sub - persons ...
... character . Ducks take to the water , eagles to the sky , waders to the sea margin , hunters to the forest , clerks to counting - rooms , soldiers to the frontier . Thus events grow on the same stem with persons ; are sub - persons ...
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... character as a supreme end , and at the same time treat the acquiring of knowledge and the development of understanding , which of necessity occupy the chief part of school time , as having nothing to do with character . On such a basis ...
... character as a supreme end , and at the same time treat the acquiring of knowledge and the development of understanding , which of necessity occupy the chief part of school time , as having nothing to do with character . On such a basis ...
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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