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Romanticism and the Human Soul

Jeff Carreira October 29, 2013Philosophy

Most of us know Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the English Romantic poet and author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. We may not be aware that he was also an important English theologian who …

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Human SoulRalph Waldo EmersonRomanticismSamuel Taylor ColeridgeTranscendentalism

The Integral Assumption of American Philosophy

Jeff Carreira January 20, 2011Philosophy

Mind cannot exist without matter; matter cannot exist without mind. This is what I have come to see as perhaps the most essential theme that runs through American philosophy. In the modern western world it …

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Immanuel KantPragmatismRalph Waldo EmersonRene DescartesTranscendentalism

The Holistic Vision of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jeff Carreira June 2, 2010Philosophy

I  am sorry that I missed a post this week due to travel, but I am excited to share more from Ralph Waldo Emerson. As we understand more how Emerson’s thought developed we see the …

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Charles Sanders PeircePragmatismRalph Waldo EmersonTranscendentalismWilliam James

Evolutionary Enlightenment and American Philosophy

Jeff Carreira October 26, 2009Philosophy

Before continuing with our fascinating discussion I wanted, in the interest of transparency, to tell a little more about my interest in American Philosophy. The last decades of the 20th century saw a resurgence of …

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Barbara Marx HubbardKen WilberPragmatismRalph Waldo EmersonTranscendentalismWilliam James

Test Drive a Worldview

Jeff Carreira September 16, 2009Philosophy

To respond to Andy, I knew that I was getting myself into some trouble by oversimplifying and over-generalizing philosophy and breaking it down into metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. I was lumping things, like logic into epistemology …

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Conception of Nature

Jeff Carreira August 15, 2009Philosophy

The Pragmatic definition of truth may have deep roots in American thought, but to uncover the metaphysical conception that is the ground under Pragmatism’s feet we should look one generation earlier into the mind of …

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