This anthology promotes a new vision: American Philosophy as complex and constantly changing, enlivened by historically marginalized, yet never silent, voices. The readings provide a sense of the history and context of sophisticated, ongoing philosophical arguments. Some of the pressing questions considered are: bull; bull;What should be the future of all persons, particularly Americans? bull;What does it mean to be native, African, or of European heritage in America, in relation to the aims of humanity? bull;What type of community is warranted given the reality of a vast array of competing interests, cultures, and ideals? bull;What moral commitments and duties should we have to strangers in light of the institution of slavery and the history of ethnocide? By offering readings from different traditions, American Philosophies: An Anthology offers an informed view of the past, while compelling the reader to rethink the meaning of American Philosophy.

Leonard Harris is Professor of Philosophy Professor at Purdue University. of Philosophy, He is editor of Racism (1999), The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, (1999) and co-editor of Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary US Society (1992).

Scott Pratt is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Cadwallader Colden (forthcoming).

Anne Waters is Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University. She is the editor of American Indian Thought: A Philosophical Reader (Blackwell, forthcoming). She is also co-editor of Hypatia, Journal of Feminist Philosophy and is on the editorial board of Ayaanwayaamizin: An International Indigenist Philosophy Journal, and the Radical Philosophy Review.

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

1

(4)

Prolegomenon to a Tradition: What is American Philosophy?

5

(2)

Leonard Harris

Part I Origin and Teleology

7

(56)

Letter to the Taino/ Arawak Indians, 1493

9

(2)

King Ferdianand of Aragon

Speeches

11

(4)

Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha

How the World Began

15

(7)

Arthur C. Parker

The Interesting Narrative

22

(10)

Olaudah Equiano

A History of New York

32

(11)

Washington Irving

Nature

43

(20)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Part II Minds and Selves

63

(100)

Impression of an Indian Childhood

65

(8)

Zit Kala Sa

Of Being and Original Sin

73

(15)

Jonathan Edwards

Principles of Psychology

88

(20)

William James

Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature

108

(14)

Josiah Royce

Our Brains and What Ails Them

122

(12)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Race

134

(16)

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Genesis of the Self and Social Control

150

(13)

George Herbert Mead

Part III Knowledge and Inquiry

163

(74)

Knowledge

165

(11)

Frances Wright

An Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy Wrote in America for the Use of a Young Gentleman

176

(12)

Cadwallader Colden

What Pragmatism Is

188

(10)

Charles Sanders Peirce

The Supremacy of Method

198

(13)

John Dewey

The Practice of Philosophy

211

(12)

Susanne K. Langer

An American Urphilosophie

223

(14)

Robert Bunge

Part IV Community and Power

237

(50)

Traditional History of the Confederacy of the Six Nations Committee of the Chiefs

239

(23)

Account of My Life

262

(8)

Benjamin Franklin

The Federalist Papers

270

(8)

Alexander Hamilton

James Madison

John Jay

Observations on the New Consitution

278

(9)

Mercy Otis Warren

Part V Slavery and Freedom

287

(72)

The Pueblo Revolt, 1680

289

(6)

Don Antonio de Otermin

Fourth of July Address at Reidsville, New York, 1854

295

(3)

John Wannuaucon Quinney

Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829

298

(15)

David Walker

Prejudices Against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to this Subject

313

(12)

Lydia Maria

Civil Disobedience

325

(12)

Henry David Thoreau

Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852

337

(10)

Frederick Douglass

Woman versus the Indian

347

(12)

Anna J. Cooper

Part VI Democracy and Utopia

359

(87)

Male Continence

361

(13)

John Humphrey Noyes

Democratic Vistas

374

(15)

Walt Whitman

Newer Ideals of Peace

389

(16)

Jane Addams

Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

405

(7)

Emma Goldman

What to Do and How to Do It

412

(8)

George Washington Woodbey

What the Indian Means to America

420

(3)

Luther Standing Bear

Our Democracy and the American Indian

423

(10)

Laura M. C. Kellogg

Cultural Pluralism

433

(13)

Alain L. Locke

Index

446

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