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   Who is the greatest American philosopher?

   • Here is a list of ten of the greatest philosophers the United States has given the world. Please note, several great American thinkers, such as Martha Nussbaum or Noam Chomsky, have made it to our other lists of thinkers, and the members of this list were selected in part as not to overlap with the others. 1. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

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   What was the philosophy of the founding fathers?

   • The philosophy of the Founding Fathers of the United States is largely seen as an extension of the European Enlightenment. A small number of philosophies are known as American in origin, namely pragmatism and transcendentalism, with their most prominent proponents being the philosophers William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson respectively.

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   What influenced American philosophy in the 18th century?

   • 18th-century American philosophy may be broken into two halves, the first half being marked by the theology of Reformed Puritan Calvinism influenced by the Great Awakening as well as Enlightenment natural philosophy, and the second by the native moral philosophy of the American Enlightenment taught in American colleges.

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   What is American philosophy?

   • American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation".

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   A small number of philosophies are known as American in origin, namely pragmatism and transcendentalism, with their most prominent proponents being the philosophers William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson respectively. 17th century.

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   Dec 6, 2017 · 1. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) A Calvinist minister who was part of the “Great Awakening”, a revivalist movement in Protestant Europe and British North America that focused less on ritual...

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   Broadly speaking, American Philosophy in the eighteenth century can be divided into two halves, the first still heavily influenced by the Calvinism of the Puritans and the second more directly along the lines of the European Enlightenment and associated with the political philosophy of the Founding Fathers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin ...

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   This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

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   Early American Philosophers were contributors to philosophical thought who lived in the territories of present-day U.S. and Canada from 1600 to 1860.

   Last Name	First Name	Dates	Career
   Adams	Hannah	1755-1832	Historian and theologian, authored early ...
   Adams	John	1735-1826	2nd US President
   Adams	Jasper	1793-1841	President (1824-26, 1828-36) and Horry ...
   Agassiz	Jean Louis Rodolphe	1807-1873	Prof. Zoology and Natural History at ...

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   Writings: The Body of Liberties (1641), The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America (1647). John Cotton (1584-1652) Biography. Because of his Puritan views, he fled England for Massachusetts. As “Teacher” in Boston’s First Church, he was a leading figure in the colony.

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   Nov 1, 2018 · John Dewey (1859–1952) was one of American pragmatism’s early founders, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, and arguably the most prominent American intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century.