Samuel Johnson was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America. He was a major proponent of both Anglicanism and the philosophies of William Wollasto
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"An attempt to land a bishop in America", an illustrated cartoon in the Political Register in 1768
Samuel Johnson by John Smybert, a member of the George Berkeley Group in Rhode Island that Johnson met with between 1729 and 1731
Portrait of Johnson as Columbia University president from 1754 to 1763, now housed in the Columbia Trustees Room
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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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…who intended to take Anglican orders. His disciples resided in all 13 states and Canada by the time of the Revolution. Johnson was a seminal figure of American philosophy. Though busy with ministry and educational duties, and raising his family, he never stopped learning or writing, and kept to his self-appointed mission…
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