The Spirit of American Philosophy: An Anthology, Selected, Edited and with Introductions

"Each of the book's six sections explores a particular relationship in a historical chronological framework. The first section explores the relationship of the individual to a religious context as expressed in the Mayflower Compact and selections from the writings of Cotton, Winthrop, Wise, Edwards, Channing, Royce, and Whitehead. It then turns to the governmental context of individuality as seen in the writings of Adams, Hamilton, Madison, Lincoln, Thoreau, Holmes, and Dewey. The moral context and its ramifications are epitomized in selections from Franklin, Adams, Sumner, George, Veblen, and James. The importance of rationality and education is emphasized in the writings from Paine, Jefferson, Mann, Peirce, James and Dewey. The metaphysical perspective of individualism is portrayed in writings by Emerson, James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, and Dewey. The sixth and last chapter attempts to define our age and its technological complexity as seen in the contemporary writings of Cohen, Lewis, Quine, Randall, Hartshorne, and Nagel" --