Freedom and Fate in American Thought: From Edwards to DeweySMU Press, 1978 - 300 pages |
Contents
Thomas Paine and the Natural Right to Freedom | 28 |
Ralph Waldo Emersons Transcendental View | 54 |
John C Calhoun on Liberty as Privilege | 81 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abolitionism abolitionist action American Arminian B. F. Skinner behavior believed Bellamy's blacks bondage Calhoun called Calvinist cause choice circumstances civil consciousness Constitution creative critics declared determinism deterministic Dewey thought Dewey's doctrine economic Edward Bellamy Edwards's effort emancipation Emerson equal essay evil existence experience external fact fate federal Frederick Douglass free-will question God's human nature Ibid ideas individual insisted intellectual intelligence interests James James's John John Dewey Jonathan Edwards Journals laws Leete liberal liberty living Looking Backward major man's matter means ment mind moral nation natural rights natural-rights necessity Negro never novelty organic Paine Paine's person philosophy political possessed possible predestination principle problem Ralph Waldo Emerson reason regarded religion Revolution sense slave slavery social society Speech spirit things thinking Thomas Paine tion Transcendental Transcendentalist truth Twain U.S. Constitution Union universe volition William Writings wrote York