James J. S. Foster

Scottish Philosophy in America

ISBN: 978-1-84540-437-6
EAN: 9781845404376
Produktnummer: 14010676
Verlag: Andrews UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: PDF

Library of Scottish Philosophy

Ebook (PDF Format)

The Scottish Enlightenment provided the fledgling United States of America and its emerging universities with a philosophical orientation. For a hundred years or more, Scottish philosophers were both taught and emulated by professors at Princeton, Harvard and Yale, as well as newly founded colleges stretching from Rhode Island to Texas. This volume in the Library of Scottish Philosophy demonstrates the remarkable extent of this philosophical influence. Selections from William Smith, John Witherspoon, Samuel Stanhope Smith, Archibald Alexander, Alexander Campbell, W.E. Channing, James McCosh, and C.S. Peirce, together with the editor's introdu… Mehr