Fighting For The Higher Law

Author : Peter Wirzbicki
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812252910

Get Book

Fighting for the Higher Law by Peter Wirzbicki Pdf

In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery. In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C. Nell, Thomas Sidney, and Charlotte Forten, and Transcendentalist intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, developed a "Higher Law" ethos, a unique set of romantic political sensibilities—marked by moral enthusiasms, democratic idealism, and a vision of the self that could judge political questions from "higher" standards of morality and reason. The Transcendentalism that emerges here is not simply the dreamy philosophy of privileged white New Englanders, but a more populist movement, one that encouraged an uncompromising form of politics among a wide range of Northerners, black as well as white, working-class as well as wealthy. Invented to fight slavery, it would influence later labor, feminist, civil rights, and environmentalist activism. African American thinkers and activists have long engaged with American Transcendentalist ideas about "double consciousness," nonconformity, and civil disobedience. When thinkers like Martin Luther King, Jr., or W. E. B. Du Bois invoked Transcendentalist ideas, they were putting to use an intellectual movement that black radicals had participated in since the 1830s.

Author : Samuel Thayer SPEAR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018540773

Get Book

The Law-abiding Conscience, and the Higher Law Conscience by Samuel Thayer SPEAR Pdf

Author : Maynard Miller
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612150727

Get Book

The Book and the Right by Maynard Miller Pdf

The Pilgrims journeyed toward the New World with a distinct purpose in mind. They left behind a life dissatisfying to them and arrived with a vision of liberty and hope. They held within themselves the seeds of a nation exceptional in all of history. Their convictions paved the way for the colonists, who would eventually give form and substance to a government based on the truth of the ages. A unique nation-a nation under God-would arise and seize the God-given right to live free, offer opportunity and realize prosperity. But contrary to the settlers' and founders' principles, alien elements have arisen in recent years to challenge the American ideal and threaten the foundation of the republic. Forces foreign to the Constitution are producing radical changes in our cultural and political life, and "one nation under God" has become "one nation under siege." The Book and The Right examines those qualities that have made America exceptional, but that are endangered at the present time, and looks in detail at the causes that are putting her at serious risk. It appraises her current direction and stresses the steps she must take to return to the course of her originally chosen destiny. The Book and The Right addresses a subject long held taboo and goes to the heart of the issue for answers. The author draws on historical, theological, psychological and political data to pursue the truth and call America back to her roots. Maynard Miller holds degrees from Asbury College, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the University of Kentucky. He has been a psychotherapist, administrator and college teacher in the mental health/human service field. A frequent speaker and writer, he is a leader in national and international service projects. His previous book is The Face in the Mirror.

Author : Louis Weeks
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664503017

Get Book

To Be a Presbyterian by Louis Weeks Pdf

In this lay-friendly introduction to what it means to be a Presbyterian, Louis B. Weeks explains the life, history, tradition, and beliefs of the Presbyterian Church. Offering more than providing a brief overview, Weeks ties his explanations to actual congregational situations. Each chapter begins with an anecdote and then examines the theme in the following pages. It is ideal for new-member classes and for those who seek a refresher course on Presbyterianism. Originally publishing this volume in 1983, Weeks has updated many of the original anecdotes and added material to reflect decades of change in the PC(USA).

Author : Matthew Stewart
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324003632

Get Book

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart Pdf

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the Civil War. This is a story about a dangerous idea—one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement—the idea that all men are created equal. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America’s antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist inspiration for the first American Revolution. Frederick Douglass’s unusual interest in radical German philosophers and Abraham Lincoln’s buried allusions to the same thinkers are but a few of the clues that underlie this propulsive philosophical detective story. With fresh takes on forgotten thinkers like Theodore Parker, the excommunicated Unitarian minister who is the original source of some of Lincoln’s most famous lines, and a feisty band of German refugees, philosopher and historian Matthew Stewart tells a vivid and piercing story of the battle between America’s philosophical radicals and the conservative counterrevolution that swept the American republic in the first decades of its existence and persists in new forms up to the present day. In exposing the role of Christian nationalism and the collusion between northern economic elites and slaveholding oligarchs, An Emancipation of the Mind demands a significant revision in our understanding of the origins and meaning of the struggle over slavery in America—and offers a fresh perspective on struggles between democracy and elite power today.

Author : Christopher Hanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192647092

Get Book

The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Christopher Hanlon Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, the digital humanities, the new religious studies, hemispheric American Studies, health humanities, and affect theory among other critical perspectives. Curated between a forward by editor Christopher Hanlon--who makes the case for a capacious and contemporary Emerson--and Cornel West--the activist-scholar whose influential work on Emerson merges with a career of advocacy for economic and racial justice?this collection assesses the history and state of Emerson scholarship while charting pathways for new work on this most essential American writer. Comprised of new works by leading figures in nineteenth-century Americanist literary studies, the volume suggests directions into underexamined facets of Emerson's writing, life, and reputation. From Emerson's engagements with energy infrastructure and the processes of extraction that undergirded the locomotives he rode and the energy economies he sometimes extolled; to the vicissitudes of age he experienced alongside the romantic tropes of youthful vigour he both re-circulated and re-tooled; to Emerson's poetry, both in its philosophical formulations and in its reflections of the material circumstances of nineteenth-century print culture; to Emerson's resonance beyond the United States, elsewhere in the western hemisphere; to the Black press and its refractions of Emersonian transcendentalism in the midst of ante- and post-bellum justice struggles; to the legacies of Emerson to be found in the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, and in the versions of ?Emerson? to be found in children's literature; to his often-fraught and often-fruitful engagements with reform movements of various sorts; to the prospects for digital processes of re-reading Emerson and his contemporaries' styles of textual production and engagement, The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a necessary resource for students, scholars, and general readers committed to the study of Emerson, transcendentalism, and current critical approaches to United States literature.

Author : Ainsworth Rand Spofford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1334940495

Get Book

The Higher Law Tried by Reason and Authority (Classic Reprint) by Ainsworth Rand Spofford Pdf

Excerpt from The Higher Law Tried by Reason and Authority This publication is anonymous. If the principles which it aims to establish are true, they need no man's name to give them warrant; if they are not true, then the author will best subserve the cause of truth by remaining nameless. His only motive in investigating the subject of this essay, has been to discover the truth for himself and having become satisfied in the progress of his inquiries, that the Views here advocated were capable of being placed on impregnable grounds, and seeing no attempt hitherto to do it in a thorough and systematic manner, he has determined to place this result of his labors before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hiram Erastus Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Occultism
ISBN : HARVARD:HXNWP7

Get Book

The Esoteric by Hiram Erastus Butler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081676276

Get Book

The Fortnightly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435054416441

Get Book

The Fortnightly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ethan J. Kytle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107074590

Get Book

Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era by Ethan J. Kytle Pdf

Romantic Reformers is an intellectual history of the American antislavery movement in the 1850s and early 1860s.

Author : Ram Dass
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307421425

Get Book

Paths to God by Ram Dass Pdf

For centuries, readers have turned to the Bhagavad Gita for inspiration and guidance as they chart their own spiritual paths. As profound and powerful as this classic text has been for generations of seekers, integrating its lessons into the ordinary patterns of our lives can ultimately seem beyond our reach. Now, in a fascinating series of reflections, anecdotes, stories, and exercises, Ram Dass gives us a unique and accessible road map for experiencing divinity in everyday life. In the engaging, conversational style that has made his teachings so popular for decades, Ram Dass traces our journey of consciousness as it is reflected in one of Hinduism’s most sacred texts. The Gita teaches a system of yogas, or “paths for coming to union with God.” In Paths to God, Ram Dass brings the heart of that system to light for a Western audience and translates the Gita’s principles into the manual for living the yoga of contemporary life. While being a guide to the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, Paths to God is also a template for expanding our definition of ourselves and allowing us to appreciate a new level of meaning in our lives.

Author : Ted A. Smith
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804793452

Get Book

Weird John Brown by Ted A. Smith Pdf

Combining theology, politics and historical analysis, “theorizes what might be at stake—ethically—for America’s current political life” (Andrew Taylor, Journal of American History). Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and digs deep into the American political imagination—through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion, but its connection to richer and more critical modes of religious reflection. Weird John Brown develops a negative political theology that challenges both the ways we remember American history and the ways we think about the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence. “Powerfully combines theology and political theory. . . . Recommended.” —R. J. Meagher, Choice “Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in.” —Franklin Rausch, New Books in Christian Studies “A brilliantly original and compelling book.” —John Stauffer, Harvard University “A very sophisticated philosophical and theological reflection on John Brown and the question of divine violence.” —Willie James Jennings, Duke University

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

Get Book

On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : F.B. Chilton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871482902

Get Book

Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade by F.B. Chilton Pdf