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 406
... method of judgment and estimation which a rational morality would apply universally and express in practice . The method , being very simple , can be discovered and largely illustrated in advance , while the complete self - knowledge ...
... method of judgment and estimation which a rational morality would apply universally and express in practice . The method , being very simple , can be discovered and largely illustrated in advance , while the complete self - knowledge ...
Page 423
... Method and the Moral Sciences * George Herbert Mead G.H. Mead was educated at Oberlin College and studied philosophy ... method and values , it is a " mistake to assume that scientific method is applicable only in the fashioning and ...
... Method and the Moral Sciences * George Herbert Mead G.H. Mead was educated at Oberlin College and studied philosophy ... method and values , it is a " mistake to assume that scientific method is applicable only in the fashioning and ...
Page 438
... method of universals confirmed prejudices and sanctioned ideas that had gained currency irrespective of evidence for them ; while placing the initial and final weight upon the individual case , stimulated painstaking inquiry into facts ...
... method of universals confirmed prejudices and sanctioned ideas that had gained currency irrespective of evidence for them ; while placing the initial and final weight upon the individual case , stimulated painstaking inquiry into facts ...
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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