2014 Spring
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
Civil Disobedience
http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
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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