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Classic
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Classic American Philosophers
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From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Excerpt:
The common name given to a group of amateur philosophers founded and led by William
Torrey Harris (1835-1909) and Hans Conrad Brokmeyer (1828-1906). Harris, a New Englander
born in Connecticut and educated at Yale, first became acquainted with idealism through
the Transcendentalists, mainly from his attendance in 1857 at the Orphic Seer's
Conversations of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). The experience inspired Harris to leave
Yale before obtaining a degree, and set off west to St. Louis to seek his vocation...
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From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Excerpt:
The main teachings of Theosophy (Gk. theosophia, "divine wisdom"), which are
at the same time religious, philosophic, and scientific, may be summed up as follows: it
postulates one eternal, immutable, all-pervading principle, the root of all manifestation.
From that one existence comes forth periodically the whole universe, manifesting the two
aspects of spirit and matter, life and form, positive and negative, "the two poles of
nature between which the universe is woven."...
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From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Excerpt:
Joseph Butler was born into a Presbyterian family at
Wantage. He attended a dissenting
academy, but then converted to the Church of England intent on an ecclesiastical career.
Butler expressed distaste for Oxford's intellectual conventions while a student at Oriel
College; he preferred the newer styles of thought, especially those of Locke, Shaftesbury
and Hutcheson, leading Hume to characterize Butler as one of those "who have begun to
put the science of man on a new footing, and have engaged the attention, and excited the
curiosity of the public." Butler benefited from the support of Samuel Clarke
and the Talbot family...
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Audio presentations quoting historic documents
contrasting the values, beliefs, and behaviors of indigenous and immigrant
cultures and of the history, content, impact of the universal declaration
of human rights and convention on the elimination of discrimination against
women.
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