Format:
281 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780199577545
Series Statement:
The Oxford history of philosophy
Content:
Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and the romantics (or 'transcendentalists') Emerson and Thoreau, were not professors but men of the world, whose deep formative influence on American thought brought philosophy together with religion, politics, and literature. Goodman considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: the deism of John Toland and Matthew Tindal, the moral sense theories of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and David Hume, the political and religious philosophy of John Locke, the romanticism of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant.--
Content:
Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and the romantics (or 'transcendentalists') Emerson and Thoreau, were not professors but men of the world, whose deep formative influence on American thought brought philosophy together with religion, politics, and literature. Goodman considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: the deism of John Toland and Matthew Tindal, the moral sense theories of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and David Hume, the political and religious philosophy of John Locke, the romanticism of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant.--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 261-273
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Jonathan EdwardsBenjamin Franklin -- Interlude : strands of Republican thought -- Thomas Jefferson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Epilogue : some continuities in American philosophy.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Goodman, Russell B., 1945 - American philosophy before pragmatism Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780191802621
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
USA
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Philosophie
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Philosoph
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Geschichte 1700-1900
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USA
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Philosophie
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Geschichte 1750-1900
Author information:
Goodman, Russell B. 1945-
