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 238
... universe , and outside of his opinion things have no moral character at all . In such a universe as that it would of course be absurd to raise the question of whether the solitary thinker's judgments of good and ill are true or not ...
... universe , and outside of his opinion things have no moral character at all . In such a universe as that it would of course be absurd to raise the question of whether the solitary thinker's judgments of good and ill are true or not ...
Page 276
... Universe * William James The following selection comes from the last chapter of James ' A Pluralistic Universe ( 1909 ) and expresses Jamesian pluralism , contrasted with the monism of the Absolute idealists . The " one " of the ...
... Universe * William James The following selection comes from the last chapter of James ' A Pluralistic Universe ( 1909 ) and expresses Jamesian pluralism , contrasted with the monism of the Absolute idealists . The " one " of the ...
Page 424
... universe are but imperfect and in- adequate parts and expressions . Whatever the conception of this moral order , definite or vague , it always has implied that the process of the universe in which we live in a real sense is akin to and ...
... universe are but imperfect and in- adequate parts and expressions . Whatever the conception of this moral order , definite or vague , it always has implied that the process of the universe in which we live in a real sense is akin to and ...
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