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" -- |
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Page 54
... society . The most important governmental principle , according to Adams , was the separation of executive , legislative , and judicial powers , since this separation tends to forestall those greatest dangers to a society - tyranny by ...
... society . The most important governmental principle , according to Adams , was the separation of executive , legislative , and judicial powers , since this separation tends to forestall those greatest dangers to a society - tyranny by ...
Page 142
... society , and to - day we suffer the con- sequences . Human society tries hard to adapt itself to any conditions in which it finds itself , and we have been warped and distorted until we have got used to it , as the foot adapts itself ...
... society , and to - day we suffer the con- sequences . Human society tries hard to adapt itself to any conditions in which it finds itself , and we have been warped and distorted until we have got used to it , as the foot adapts itself ...
Page 188
... society not under your contemplation . It is , in fact , like a critic on Homer by the laws of the drama . But when we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered , we come to what is proper for all ...
... society not under your contemplation . It is , in fact , like a critic on Homer by the laws of the drama . But when we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered , we come to what is proper for all ...
Contents
RELIGION Introduction | 1 |
Mayflower Compact 1620 | 12 |
Swine and Goats | 13 |
Copyright | |
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