American philosophy before pragmatism
Goodman, Russell BAuthor
This study of five American thinkers - Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau - considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: to 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study of five American thinkers - Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau - considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: to 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.
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Jonathan Edwards -- Benjamin Franklin -- Interlude : strands of Republican thought -- Thomas Jefferson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Epilogue : some continuities in American philosophy.
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Philosophy, American
Philosophy, American
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion