2014 Fall
Sometimes these sources are call “Classical American” but your instructor has reserved that classification for the philosophies of Indigenous Americans.
AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM
Emerson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Self-Reliance
http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
“Let a Stoic open the resources of man”
Thoreau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Walden
http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html
Civil Disobedience
http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
Elizabeth Peabody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peabody
Still looking for primary source texts available online. Peabody worked with Emerson and Thoreau on “The Dial,” translated the “Lotus Sutra” from French (work usually attributed to Thoreau) and wrote about Kindergarten philosophy or the educational value of play. Here is a link to her bio at a Transcendentalism website:
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/peabody/
INTERLUDE ON DARWIN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
American Pragmatism is perhaps the first world-historical school of philosophy to be thoroughly evolutionary.
AMERICAN PRAGMATISM
Peirce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce
How to Make Our Ideas Clear (Pragmatist Thesis: Sec. II, last paragraph)
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ideas/id-frame.htm
What is a Sign?
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/ep/ep2/ep2book/ch02/ep2ch2.htm
Evolutionary Love
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/evolove/evolove.htm
James
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James
Will to Believe
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26659/26659-h/26659-h.htm#P1
Varieties of Religious Experience
http://csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html
Dewey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey
Democracy and Education
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm#link2HCH0007
CRITICAL PRAGMATISM
Alain Locke
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alain-locke/
PROPHETIC PRAGMATISM
Cornel West
http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/154711-1/Cornel+West.aspx
Database suggestion:
CARTER, JACOBY ADESHEI. “The Insurrectionist Challenge To Pragmatism And Maria W. Stewart’s Feminist Insurrectionist Ethics.” Transactions Of The Charles S. Peirce Society 49.1 (2013): 54-73. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Jan. 2014.
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