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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... principle of reason : ... First , if God Almighty has made of one blood all nations , as He Himself has declared , and that He has given them both sense corporal and intellectual to dis- cern things and their differences , so as to ...
... principle of reason : ... First , if God Almighty has made of one blood all nations , as He Himself has declared , and that He has given them both sense corporal and intellectual to dis- cern things and their differences , so as to ...
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... principle of disinterested general benevolence . As when we receive kindness from such as we love already , we are more disposed to gratitude , and disposed to greater degrees of it ; than when the mind is destitute of any friendly ...
... principle of disinterested general benevolence . As when we receive kindness from such as we love already , we are more disposed to gratitude , and disposed to greater degrees of it ; than when the mind is destitute of any friendly ...
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... principle of Peirce , the principle of pragmatism . It lay entirely un- noticed by any one for twenty years , until I , in an address before Professor Howison's philosophical union at the University of California , brought it for- ward ...
... principle of Peirce , the principle of pragmatism . It lay entirely un- noticed by any one for twenty years , until I , in an address before Professor Howison's philosophical union at the University of California , brought it for- ward ...
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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