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 207
... Ethics , for Dewey , if it is to have anything worthwhile to tell us , must take science seriously as a model . Of all the three most famous pragma- tists , Dewey is the only one who actually advocated an experimental approach to ethics ...
... Ethics , for Dewey , if it is to have anything worthwhile to tell us , must take science seriously as a model . Of all the three most famous pragma- tists , Dewey is the only one who actually advocated an experimental approach to ethics ...
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... Ethics * George Santayana " Rational Ethics " comes from Volume 5 of George Santayana's The Life of Reason : Or , the Phases of Human Progress , 1905-1906 . Here Santayana lays the groundwork for his own naturalistic and relativistic ...
... Ethics * George Santayana " Rational Ethics " comes from Volume 5 of George Santayana's The Life of Reason : Or , the Phases of Human Progress , 1905-1906 . Here Santayana lays the groundwork for his own naturalistic and relativistic ...
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... ethics in- cluding his book Ethics ( 1963 ) . As Frankena attempts to show , there is much confusion about just what the so - called naturalistic fallacy is and whether it is in fact an error committed by naturalistic theories of ethics ...
... ethics in- cluding his book Ethics ( 1963 ) . As Frankena attempts to show , there is much confusion about just what the so - called naturalistic fallacy is and whether it is in fact an error committed by naturalistic theories of ethics ...
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