Professors and Public Ethics : : Studies of Northern Moral Philosophers before the Civil War /

Professors and Public Ethics : : Studies of Northern Moral Philosophers before the Civil War / / Wilson Smith.

A relatively unexplored subject in the social and intellectual history of our country is the contribution made by the moral philosophers, the social scientists of their day. What was their place in the academic and practical world? What was the nature of their social ethics? Did they have a real voi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Smith, Wilson,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1956
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part I: The Mechanics of Conservative Morality
  • I. The Moral Philosophers as Public Men
  • II. The Pattern of Moral Philosophy
  • III. William Paley's Theological Utilitarianism in America
  • Part II: The Nature and Practice of Whiggish Ethics
  • Introduction
  • IV. John Daniel Gros and the Idea of a Respectful Citizenry
  • V. Francis Lieber's Moral Philosophy
  • VI. Purity and Progress in New Hampshire: The Role of Charles B. Haddock
  • VII. Francis Wayland and the Dorr War
  • Part III: The End of the Academic Enlightenment
  • VIII. James Walker and the Problem of the Harvard Moral Philosophy
  • IX. The Decline of Moral Philosophy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendixes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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