Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Prolegomenon to a Tradition: What is American Philosophy? 5 Leonard Harris
Part I Origin and Teleology 7
1 Letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians, 1493 9 King Ferdinand of Aragon
2 Speeches 11 Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha
3 How the World Began 15 Arthur C. Parker
4 The Interesting Narrative 22 Olaudah Equiano
5 A History of New York 32 Washington Irving
6 Nature 43 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part II Minds and Selves 63
7 Impressions of an Indian Childhood 65 Zit Kala Sa
8 Of Being and Original Sin 73 Jonathan Edwards
9 Principles of Psychology 88 William James
10 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature 108 Josiah Royce
11 Our Brains and What Ails Them 122 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12 Race 134 W. E. B. Du Bois
13 The Genesis of the Self and Social Control 150 George Herbert Mead
Part III Knowledge and Inquiry 163
14 Knowledge 165 Frances Wright
15 An Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy Wrote in America for the Use of a Young Gentleman 176 Cadwallader Colden
16 What Pragmatism Is 188 Charles Sanders Peirce
17 The Supremacy of Method 198 John Dewey
18 The Practice of Philosophy 211 Susanne K. Langer
19 An American Urphilosophie 223 Robert Bunge
Part IV Community and Power 237
20 Traditional History of the Confederacy of the Six Nations 239 Committee of the Chiefs
21 Account of My Life 262 Benjamin Franklin
22 The Federalist Papers 270 Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
23 Observations on the New Constitution 278 Mercy Otis Warren
Part V Slavery and Freedom 287
24 The Pueblo Revolt, 1680 289 Don Antonio de Otermin
25 Fourth of July Address at Reidsville, New York, 1854 295 John Wannuaucon Quinney
26 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829 298 David Walker
27 Prejudices Against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to this Subject 313 Lydia Maria Francis Child
28 Civil Disobedience 325 Henry David Thoreau
29 Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852 337 Frederick Douglass
30 Woman versus the Indian 347 Anna J. Cooper
Part VI Democracy and Utopia 359
31 Male Continence 361 John Humphrey Noyes
32 Democratic Vistas 374 Walt Whitman
33 Newer Ideals of Peace 389 Jane Addams
34 Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 405 Emma Goldman
35 What to Do and How to Do It 412 George Washington Woodbey
36 What the Indian Means to America 420 Luther Standing Bear
37 Our Democracy and the American Indian 423 Laura M. C. Kellogg
38 Cultural Pluralism 433 Alain L. Locke
Index 446