Conkin, P: Puritans and Pragmatists

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4813-1463-3
Verlag: Baylor University Press

Buch, Englisch, 505 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Eight brilliant and original American thinkers – Edwards, Franklin, John Adams, Emerson, Peirce, William James, Dewey, and Santayana – are the subject of this widely admired book by one of America's foremost writers of intellectual history. In this study, the author finds a degree of continuity and some elements of underlying unity in the varied and idiosyncratic thoughts of these men. Instead of superficial similarities, he emphasizes a common moral tenor, an instrumental conception of knowledge, and a broad, ethical conception of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface to the New Edition
- Chapter I
- The Puritan Prelude
- God and Man
- Morals and Society
- Spirit and Matter
- Part One: Diverse Puritans
- Chapter II
- Jonathan Edwards: Theology
- Ultimate Concerns
- The Great Awakening and Affectionate Religion
- The Battle against Arminianism
- Chapter III
- Benjamin Franklin: Science and Morals
- Career and Character
- Natural Science
- Moral Science
- Chapter IV
- John Adams: Politics
- Portrait of an Enlightened Puritan
- In Defense of Liberty
- The Republican Idea
- Part Two: In Transition
- Chapter V
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poet-Priest
- The Early Pilgrimage
- Self-Reliance
- Philosophy
- Intellect and Art
- Part Three: Three Pragmatists
- Chapter VI
- Charles S. Peirce
- Life
- Signs and Relations
- Inquiry and the Pragmatic Test
- The categories and Realism
- Scientific Metaphysics
- Axiology and Religion
- Chapter VII
- William James
- The Courageous Pilgrimage
- Psychology
- Voluntarism
- In Pursuit of an Ontology
- Pragmatism
- Practical Concerns
- Chapter VIII
- John Dewey
- The Long Pathway to Naturalism
- The Metaphysical Framework
- Epistemology
- Value
- Philosophy in Action
- Part Four: In Retreat
- Chapter IX
- George Santayana
- Life
- The Metaphysical Foundation
- Epistemology
- Axiology
- Politics and Art
- Religion
- A Reading Guide
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul K. Conkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.