American philosophy in the 18th and 19th centuries

By Goodman, Russell B.

Jonathan Edwards, the first great American philosopher, interpreted Calvinist theology within the newer framework of Newtonian physics and Lockean empiricism in his Freedom of the Will (1754). However, ...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82)

By Goodman, Russell B.

The American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson developed a philosophy of flux or transitions in which the active human self plays a central role. At the core ...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82)

The American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson developed a philosophy of flux or transitions in which the active human self plays a central role. At the core ...