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Author : Richard P. Mullin
Release : 2007-05-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Soul of Classical American Philosophy by : Richard P. Mullin
Download or read book The Soul of Classical American Philosophy written by Richard P. Mullin. This book was released on 2007-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the spiritual ideas of three major American philosophers.
Author : Richard P. Mullin
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Soul of Classical American Philosophy by : Richard P. Mullin
Download or read book The Soul of Classical American Philosophy written by Richard P. Mullin. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soul of Classical American Philosophy is an introduction to the thought of William James, Josiah Royce, and Charles Sanders Peirce, particularly in terms of the ethical and the spiritual. Writing for the nonspecialist in a straightforward style, Richard P. Mullin brings together the central ideas of these three key figures of classical American Pragmatism and explores their engagement with issues of truth, the meaning of self, free will, moral values, community, scientific thinking, and the relationship with the transcendent. He also addresses the growing international interest in American philosophy and sheds light on a defining movement in its history.
Author : Rebecca L. Farinas
Release : 2021-01-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Classical American Philosophy by : Rebecca L. Farinas
Download or read book Classical American Philosophy written by Rebecca L. Farinas. This book was released on 2021-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Classical American Philosophy: Poiesis in the Public Square, Rebecca Farinas takes seven major figures from the American philosophical canon and examines their relationship with an artistic or scientific interlocutor. It is a unique insight into the origins of American philosophy and through case studies such as the friendship between Alain Locke and the biologist E.E. Just and the collaboration between Jane Addams and George Herbert Mead, Farinas provides a new insight into these thinkers' ideas. Her new perspective allows her to move beyond relational aesthetics to consider these theorists' phenomenological, metaphysical, religious and cosmological ideas and reapply them to the modern world. Indeed, the partnerships she examines have proved especially valuable to newer philosophical fields like value theory, ethics, pedagogy and semiotics. Her links between art and science also provide new vantage points on our society's continuing artistic endeavours and technological advances and introduce an exciting new perspective on early American philosophy and its ensuing movements.
Author : Woodbridge Riley
Release : 1907
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis American Philosophy by : Woodbridge Riley
Download or read book American Philosophy written by Woodbridge Riley. This book was released on 1907. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Kaag
Release : 2016-10-11
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis American Philosophy by : John Kaag
Download or read book American Philosophy written by John Kaag. This book was released on 2016-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy and psychology, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book. The books Kaag discovers in the Hocking library are crawling with insects and full of mold. But he resolves to restore them, as he immediately recognizes their importance. Not only does the library at West Wind contain handwritten notes from Whitman and inscriptions from Frost, but there are startlingly rare first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As Kaag begins to catalog and read through these priceless volumes, he embarks on a thrilling journey that leads him to the life-affirming tenets of American philosophy—self-reliance, pragmatism, and transcendence—and to a brilliant young Kantian who joins him in the restoration of the Hocking books. Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is ultimately about love, freedom, and the role that wisdom can play in turning one’s life around.
