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American philosophy before pragmatism /

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 t...

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Main Author: Goodman, Russell B. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford history of philosophy.
Subjects:
Edwards, Jonathan, > 1703-1758.
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862.
Edwards, Jonathan, > 1703-1758
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862
Philosophy, American.
Pragmatism.
Philosophie américaine.
Pragmatisme.
pragmatism.
Philosophy, American
Pragmatism
Philosophie
Philosoph
USA
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191802621
019180262X