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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... sense of ill desert in their making all other interests give place to their own . And no wonder that any , by often repeating acts of sin without punishment , or visible appearance of approaching punishment , have less and less present ...
... sense of ill desert in their making all other interests give place to their own . And no wonder that any , by often repeating acts of sin without punishment , or visible appearance of approaching punishment , have less and less present ...
Page 67
... Sense and Natural Rights * Thomas Paine Thomas Paine ( 1737-1809 ) came to America from England in 1774 , and he soon began a series of influential writings . The following selection draws on three of Paine's chief works , Common Sense ...
... Sense and Natural Rights * Thomas Paine Thomas Paine ( 1737-1809 ) came to America from England in 1774 , and he soon began a series of influential writings . The following selection draws on three of Paine's chief works , Common Sense ...
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... sense of the term , it is the pursuit of improve- ment , an old pattern which , though it is also resisted , continually renews itself in some form or other , throughout the entire history of morality in America . In this second sense ...
... sense of the term , it is the pursuit of improve- ment , an old pattern which , though it is also resisted , continually renews itself in some form or other , throughout the entire history of morality in America . In this second sense ...
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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