Document in the History of American Philosophy: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey

Part 1: The Father of American Philosophy John Locke Empiricism Reason: Intuitive and Discursive Innate Principles versus Self-evident Principles Rationalism The Light of Reason and the Light of Enthusiasm Part 2: The Eighteenth Century: Philosophy in the Service of Religion and Law Jonathan Edwards The Sense of the Heart Freedom of the Will JAMES WILSON The Law of Nature Part 3: Transcendentalism: The Triumph of Sentiment Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Reason versus The Understanding George Ripley Against the Argument from Miracles The Connection between Virtue and Utility Ralph Waldo Emerson The Reason versus the Understanding Retrospection Religion and the Moral Sentiment The American Scholar Self-Reliance Theodore Parker Transcendentalism and Sensationalism Part 4: The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Science Herbert Spencer The Aim of Synthetic Philosophy The Achievement of Synthetic Philosophy John Fiske Scientific Axioms Spencer versus Comte Chauncey Wright Against Spencer In Defense of Darwin J. B. Stallo Scientific Hypotheses The Relation of Thoughts to Things—the Formation of Concepts—Metaphysical Theories Part 5: Pragmatism: A Tough and Tender Philosophy Charles Peirce How To Make Our Ideas Clear Pragmatism and Scholastic Realism William James The Nature of Metaphysical Axioms Against Determinism Pragmatism: “A Happy Harmonizer” Part 6: Absolute Idealism Josiah Royce God and Science Part 7: Naturalism: The Revolt against Gentility and Dualism George Santayana The Genteel Tradition The Poetry of Christian Dogma John Dewey Logic and Science Reconstruction in Philosophy