American philosophy
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American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophy produced by American people. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, Am
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American Enlightenment
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The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the British Thirteen Colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of
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…Calvinist doctrine, influencing the Great Awakening, while Johnson converted to the Anglican episcopal religion (the Church of England), and based his new American Enlightenment moral philosophy on natural religion. Both were used "in the tumultuous years of the 1750s and 1770s" to "forge a new intellectual culture for the…
The United States Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia in June 1776, and ratified by the Second Continental Congress, on July 4, 1776, one of the most important and influential documents of the American Enlightenment
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