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 114
... expression to the creative literary interests of the Transcendentalists . Emerson and Thoreau , the two most famous members of this group are im- portant not only as writers , but as giving expression to a number of important ethical ...
... expression to the creative literary interests of the Transcendentalists . Emerson and Thoreau , the two most famous members of this group are im- portant not only as writers , but as giving expression to a number of important ethical ...
Page 324
... expression , in the temporal order , of some finite will , is not explicable merely in abstract terms as due to the general nature of temporal Being . For it is also , presumably , either directly due to the magnitude and ideality of ...
... expression , in the temporal order , of some finite will , is not explicable merely in abstract terms as due to the general nature of temporal Being . For it is also , presumably , either directly due to the magnitude and ideality of ...
Page 325
... expression of will , and since even the processes of external Nature , for our own view , embody the in- tent of finite agents , whose life is linked to ours by ties to us at present mysteri- ous , I can indeed say , in general , that ...
... expression of will , and since even the processes of external Nature , for our own view , embody the in- tent of finite agents , whose life is linked to ours by ties to us at present mysteri- ous , I can indeed say , in general , that ...
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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