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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... evidence that the heart of man is naturally of a corrupt and evil disposition . This is strenuously denied by many late writers who are enemies to the doctrine of original sin ; and particularly by Dr. [ John ] Taylor . The way we come ...
... evidence that the heart of man is naturally of a corrupt and evil disposition . This is strenuously denied by many late writers who are enemies to the doctrine of original sin ; and particularly by Dr. [ John ] Taylor . The way we come ...
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... evidence possessed by cer- tain propositions is the adaequatio intellectus nostri cum re . The certitude it brings involves an apititudinem ad extorquendum certum assensum on the part of the truth envisaged , and on the side of the ...
... evidence possessed by cer- tain propositions is the adaequatio intellectus nostri cum re . The certitude it brings involves an apititudinem ad extorquendum certum assensum on the part of the truth envisaged , and on the side of the ...
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... evidence is objective , otherwise it is not . But practi- cally one's conviction that the evidence one goes by is of the real objective brand , is only one more subjective opinion added to the lot . For what a contra- dictory array of ...
... evidence is objective , otherwise it is not . But practi- cally one's conviction that the evidence one goes by is of the real objective brand , is only one more subjective opinion added to the lot . For what a contra- dictory array of ...
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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