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9780131833067

Philosophy in America, Volume 2

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  • ISBN13:

    9780131833067

  • ISBN10:

    0131833065

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-10-27
  • Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

This anthology presents selections from American philosophy, 1720 to the present, and a critical narrative of important philosophers working during the same time period. The selected works represent some of the defining and persistent trends in the development of American thoughthistorically significant and important as they point to the development of ideals and expectations that characterize the American experience.Coverage concentrates on some major thinkers in the history of American philosophyJonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Chauncey Wright, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Josiah Royce, and George Santayana.MARKETFor individuals interested in American philosophy and literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
PART I AMERICAN METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY
1(220)
Philosophy Takes Hold
1(21)
Jonathan Edwards
Self-made Man and Man-made Self
22(15)
Benjamin Franklin
Philosophies of Revolution and Resolution
37(28)
New England Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau and the Case for Completing the American Revolution
65(26)
A Positivist and Precursor to American Pragmatism
91(12)
Chauncey Wright
Founders of Pragmatism, A Philosophy Made in America
103(43)
Charles Sanders Peirce
William James
John Dewey
Idealist and Absolute Pragmatist: Unity, the Absolute, and Loyality
146(20)
Josiah Royce
Philosophical Naturalist Par Excellence and More
166(24)
George Santayana
Philosophical Analysts and the Persistence of Pragmatism
190(31)
PART II AMERICAN ETHICS, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
221(62)
The Continuing Revolution: Abolitionism and American Women's Rights and Civil Rights
221(38)
Contemporary American Ethics and Politics: The Individual and the Community
259(24)
Index 283

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