American thought before 1900
Subtitle: a sourcebook from puritanism to Darwinism
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Jonathan Edwards. introduction -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- Freedom of the will -- The nature of true virtue -- Religious affections -- Notes on natural science : of being -- The mind -- Bibliography -- Samuel Johnson. Introduction -- The philosophical correspondence between Samuel Johnson and Bishop Berkeley -- Bibliography -- Cadwallader Colden. Introduction -- The philosophical correspondence between Cadwallader Colden and Samuel Johnson on materialism and immaterialism -- A summary of the principles of action -- Bibliography -- Benjamin Franklin. Introduction -- Opinions and conjectures concerning the properties and effects of electrical matter -- Autobiography -- Dialogue between Philocles and Horatio concerning virtue and pleasure -- Bibliography -- Thomas Jefferson. Introduction -- Political philosophy -- Religious philosophy -- Moral philosophy -- Bibliography -- Thomas Paine. introduction -- Rights of man -- The age of reason -- Bibliography -- The Federalist. Introduction -- The Federalist No. 10 (Madison) -- The Federalist No. 31 (Hamilton)  -- The Federalist No. 47 (Madison)  -- Bibliography -- Benjamin Rush. introduction -- The influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty -- Bibliography -- Ethan Allen. Introduction -- Reason the only oracle of man -- Bibliography -- Elihu Palmer. Introduction -- Principles of the Deistical Society of the State of New York -- Bibliography -- John C. Calhoun. Introduction -- A disquisition on government -- Bibliography -- James McCosh. Introduction -- Realistic philosophy -- Bibliography -- William Ellery Channing. Introduction -- The evidences of revealed religion -- Bibliography -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Introduction -- The Transcendentalist -- Nature -- The American Scholar -- Bibliography -- Henry David Thoreau. Introduction -- Civil disobedience -- Bibliography -- William Torrey Harris. Introduction -- The concrete and the abstract -- Bibliography -- Laurens Perseus Hickok. Introduction -- The logic of reason, universal and eternal -- Bibliography -- Josiah Royce. Introduction -- Reality and idealism -- The philosophy of loyalty -- Bibliography -- John Fiske. Introduction -- Outlines of cosmic philosophy -- Bibliography -- Chauncey Wright. Introduction -- Evolution by natural selection -- Evolution of self-consciousness -- On cause and effect -- On science -- Bibliography -- John Dewey. Introduction -- Darwin’s influence upon philosophy -- Bibliography -- General bibliography.