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American Philosophy is a section of
Adventures in Philosophy devoted to a brief history
of American philosophic thought from its beginnings
in colonial times to approximately the Second World
War. You may notice that some of the thinkers
included here are not ordinarily considered to be
philosophers. We think their inclusion here is
justified, however, because of the intellectual
impact they had on the development of social and
political thought in America as well as on the
American culture in general.
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Foundational
Documents in American Political
Philosophy
Important
American Documents
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The
Constitution of the United States of
America
In the
Politics Resource
Center
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The
American Divines
Introduction:
Puritanism, the Quakers
William Penn -
Samuel Johnson -
Jonathan
Edwards
Essays
The
Founding Fathers
Introduction: The
American Revolution
Thomas Paine -
Ethan Allen -
Benjamin
Franklin - John
Adams
Thomas Jefferson -
Benjamin
Rush
Essays
- The Rights
of Man, by Thomas Paine
- The
Exercise of Reason, by Ethan Allen
- Wise
Sayings, by Benjamin Franklin
- On
Self-Delusion, by John Adams
- First
Inauguration Address, by Thomas Jefferson (March
4, 1801)
- Second
Inauguration Address, by Thomas Jefferson (March
4, 1805)
- Attraction,
Composition and Decomposition, by Benjamin
Rush
Letter
America's
Coming of Age
Introduction: The
Abolitionists
Henry Ward Beecher
- John C.
Calhoun
Joseph Alden -
Abraham Lincoln -
Robert Green
Ingersoll
Essays
American
Transcendentalism
Introduction:
Unitarianism , Transcendentalism
William Ellery
Channing - Amos
Bronson Alcott
Theodore Parker -
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Henry David
Thoreau - Walt
Whitman - William
Torrey Harris
Essays
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Late
19th-Century Thinkers
Introduction: The
Reconstruction Period, The Gilded Age
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Sr. - George Holmes
Howison - Josephus
Flavius Cook
Henry George -
John Clark Ridpath
- Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr.
John Fiske -
Ambrose
Bierce
Essays
Idealism
in America
Introduction:
Idealism, Personalism
Josiah Royce -
Borden Parker
Bowne
William Ernest
Hocking
Essays
American
Pragmatism
Introduction:
Pragmatism, Instrumentalism
Charles Sanders
Peirce - William
James - John
Dewey
Expanded Discussions
Essays
- How
to Make Our Ideas Clear, by Charles Sanders
Peirce
- The
Fixation of Belief, by Charles Sanders
Peirce
- Divisions of
Science, by Charles Sanders Peirce
- Pragmatism, by
William James
- The
Religious Hypothesis, by William James
- Philosophy
and Its Critics, by William James
- Truth Is
Established on Pragmatic Grounds, by William
James
- On
Democracy, by John Dewey
- On the Use
of the Word "Object," by John Dewey
- The
Process of Inquiry, by John Dewey
Recent
American Thought
John Burroughs -
George Santayana -
Paul Carus -
Felix Adler
Thorstein Veblen -
George Herbert
Mead - Mary Whiton
Calkins
Ferdinand Canning
Scott Schiller
Frederick J. E.
Woodbridge - William
McDougall - William
Pepperell Montague
Morris R. Cohen -
P.W. Bridgman -
Horace Meyer
Kallen - Clarence
Irving Lewis
Essays
- Contradictions
in Life, by John Burroughs
- Art in
Instinct and Experience, by George
Santayana
- Monism, by
Paul Carus
- Immortality,
by Felix Adler
- Social
Psychology, by George Herbert Mead
- Egoism and
Altruism, by Mary Whiton Calkins
- How is
"Exactness" Possible?, by Ferdinand Canning
Scott Schiller
- What is
Personality?, by Frederick James Eugene
Woodbridge
- Individual
and Groups, by William McDougall
- Promethean
Challenge to Religion, by William Pepperell
Montague
- Philosophy
and Literature, by Morris Raphael Cohen
- The Faith
of a Liberal, by Morris Raphael Cohen
- Scientist and
Social Responsibility, by P.W. Bridgman
- The Choice
of Freedom, by Horace Meyer Kallen
- Evaluation,
by Clarence Irving Lewis
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