Author: Guy W. Stroh
Publisher: Princeton, N.J : Van Nostrand
ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Robert W. Shahan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806115948
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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What have Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sanders Pierce, William James, John Dewey, Josiah Royce, George Santayana and Willard Van Orman Quine contributed to American philosophy? Edwards is without rival as the greatest philosopher/theologian of colonial America. Before Emerson, no other thinker remotely approaches Edwards in intellectual endowment, range of interests, or depth and subtlety of treatment of a variety of philosophical topics. Emerson and Thoreau together represent the high point of American transcendentalism. Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey--the Big Three of American pragmatism--form a constellation of philosophers whose like has been seen neither before nor since their time. The brilliant, irascible Peirce may well be the greatest philosopher America has produced. Philosophical idealism reached its American zenith in Josiah Royce, a thinker whose vast erudition and formidable intelligence breathed new life into a point of view widely thought to be moribund. George Ssantayana is, with Emerson, the poet of American philosophy. Quine is one of America’s most distinguished living philosophers and very proudly the most influential.

Author: Morton Gabriel White
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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A penetrating examination of different views of science espoused by major American thinkers and how these views affec the central institutions of civilization.

Author: Morton White
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195015553
Category : Philosophy, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Herbert Wallace Schneider
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120824546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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The present work treats of several aspects of American philosophy in their historical perspective. The author has interpreted philosophically the revolutionary changes that recent years have brought in the domain of education, church, politics, natural sciences etc. The reader will find herein that American Philosophy is the outgrowth of impacts of new life and new directions imported by waves of immigration. More conspicuous are the recent intellectual imports from Cambridge, Paris and Vienna. The philosophical analysis that grew up in Cambridge under the leadership of Whitehead, russel and Moore, the sophisticated, modernized versions of Catholic scholasticism from Paris and the the schools of value theory, existentialism, phenomenology, logical positivism, psychoanalysis, and socialism from Vienna--these are now pervasive forces in American culture. The author has ventured to predict that the types of philosophical thought described in this volume are being radically revised, reviewed and reconstructed because of these new importations that a decidedly new chapter in American philosophy is being written. The author has tried well to expound what American history teaches or what American philosophy stands for.

Author: Joseph Leon Blau
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Morton White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Barbara MacKinnon
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873959223
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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This anthology demonstrates the richness and diversity of the American intellectual heritage. In it we see how Jonathan Edwards grapples with the problem of how to reconcile freedom and responsibility with Calvinist religious beliefs; how Franklin and Jefferson exemplified American enlightenment thought; and how the Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, formulated their particular romantic idealist beliefs. A second and significant portion of the anthology is devoted to Pragmatism. Substantive excerpts from Peirce, James and Dewey, as well as Royce, are collected here. A third part is devoted to other Twentieth-Century American philosophies. No other collection of writings in this field includes the breadth of coverage that this one does. Among the chapters in this third part of the book are those on early Process Philosophy, Phenomenology, Positivism, and Language Philosophies. Selections from such philosophers as Whitehead, Weiss, Buchler, Gurwitsch, Sellars, Quine, Davidson, and Rawls, along with many others are included in this part. A final chapter is devoted to twentieth-century American Moral Philosophy. The book is specifically designed to be used as a text for courses in American philosophy. A substantive introduction that emphasizes the historical setting as well as major interests and ideas of the philosophers accompanies each chapter. Extensive bibliographies and study guide questions follow each chapter. The selections include more than any one course will cover, but in their completeness also allow individual teachers and readers to select what they want.

Author: Guy W. Stroh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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An anthology of 75 readings trace the first 300 years of ethics in what is now the US, from the early Puritans and their most able spokesman, Jonathan Edwards, to the middle of the 20th century, when John Dewey gained immense influence. Each of the six includes an introduction, questions for discussion, and a list of further reading. A brief glossary does not indicate pronunciation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Paul F. Boller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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