Abbott, Lyman
action: capacity for; and contingency, relation to; existential dimension of; and expectation; and human agency; moral; narrative dimension of; philosophy of; political; practical; precariousness of; and self-understanding; teleological structure of
actor versus spectator
Adam and Eve
agency; moral
Alexander, Thomas
Annas, Julia
Antigone
“appropriate posture,”
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotelianism
Aristotle; categories of knowledge; conception of matter; on phronēsis and moral virtues; revisionist accounts of
Arnold, Matthew
Art as Experience (Dewey)
atheism
Augustine, Saint
“Authority and Social Change” (Dewey)
Bacon, Francis
Bakhurst, David
Beecher, Henry Ward
“Beliefs and Existences” (Dewey)
Berlin, Isaiah
Bernstein, Richard
Bible. See also Scripture
Bildung
Block, James
Blumenberg, Hans
Bohman, James
Boisvert, Raymond
Bozeman, Theodore
Brandom, Robert
Bushnell, Horace
Calvin, John
Campbell, James
capitalism, laissez-faire
Caspary, William
categorical imperative
certainty, quest for
Chambers, Robert
Chowers, Eyal
Christ
Christianity
civil society
Civil War
Clebsch, William
Columbia University
“Common Faith, A” (Dewey)
communitarianism
Conduct of Life, The (Emerson)
conflict: character of; and deliberation; irreducibility of; moral; and pluralism; and reasoning; religious; social; and synthetic harmony; tragic
“Conflict and Inquiry” (Levi)
Congregational Church
Congress
Connolly, William
Constant, Benjamin
constitutionalism
contingency; domestication of; and the public; and practical action. See also uncertainty
Darwin, Charles; contingency and uncertainty; and Dewey; and Hodge; and liberal Protestants; natural selection
Darwinian Enlightenment
decision-making, political
deduction, induction, and abduction
deliberation; and conflict; and dramatic rehearsal
democracy; anarchic; constitutional; and decision-making; deliberative; democratic realists; demos; elites; elitism; emergence of; ethos of; and experts; “fugitive,”; identities in the context of; illusions of; incompleteness/openness of; inequality in information and skill; and legitimacy; as managing power; radicalism; and reason-giving; and religion; representative government; republican regimes; and revolution; scientific method and; as social practice; “spiritual,”; as unsettled, unstable
Democracy and Disagreement (Thompson)
Democracy and Education (Dewey)
“Democracy and Educational Administration” (Dewey)
Democratic Faith (Deneen)
democratic state, boat metaphor
“Democratic Vistas” (Whitman)
democrats, deliberative
demos, state power and the
Deneen, Patrick
Descartes, René
Descent of Man (Darwin)
Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (Fiske)
Dewey, John: aesthetics of; anti-authoritarian outlook; critics of; Darwin, influence of; on democracy; experimentalism of; and Hegelian idealism; and humility; and individualism; intelligence, faith in; on liberalism; and Mead, influence of; and metaphysics; on modernity; and modern life; moral philosophy; nondomination, commitment to; on optimism-pessimism; philosophy of action; pluralism, sensitivity to; on political action; on practical action; on practical experience; progress, faith in; quest for certainty; realism of; as a reformer; on religion; and religious experience; religious naturalism of; on the self; on self-assertion; on self-reliance; social psychology of; on theory and practice
Diggins, John Patrick
disenchantment, Weberian
“Divinity School Address” (Emerson)
division of labor, epistemic
“Dover Beach” (poem; M. Arnold)
Dryzek, John
Edwards, Jonathan
egotism, “mean,”
Eldridge, Michael
elites
elitism, epistemic
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; and Dewey; and individual identities; on self-reliance
empiricism
Enlightenment; Cartesian and Newtonian; Darwinian
Enlightenment Contested (Israel)
epistēmē
essentialism
ethic of care
Ethics (Dewey)
evolution; as moral disclosure; and Protestantism; and species variation
Evolution of Christianity, The (Abbott)
Evolution and Religion (Beecher)
Existentialism and Humanism (Sartre)
experience, narrative of
Experience and Nature (Dewey)
experimentalism; Dewey’s; of liberal Protestants
experimental method
experts: and citizens, relations between; and democracy
expert systems
faith; and imagination; and inquiry; leap of; moral dimension of
fallibilism; democratic
Festenstein, Matthew
Fiske, John
Fox, Richard
Fraser, Nancy
freedom; and authority; expressive; and freedom; insecurity of; and insurgency; and law; liberalism’s notion of; negative; neo-republican conception of; as nondomination; vs. political authority; positive; and power; as reflective self-control
“Freedom” (Dewey)
Freedom and Culture (Dewey)
Freedom of Faith, The (Munger)
French Philosophical Society
“Fugitive Democracy” (Wolin)
fundamentalism and dogmatism
fundamentalists, Christian
Fung, Archon
Georg-Gadamer, Hans
Giddens, Anthony
Glaude, Eddie
God; existence of; and the United States
Greek philosophy
Greek tradition
Greek tragedies
Gutmann, Amy
Habermas, Jürgen
habits; and character; as narrative of experience
Hanson, Norwood
Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences
Hegel, Georg
Heidegger, Martin
Hickman, Larry
Hobbes, Thomas
Hodge, Charles; on Darwinian evolution; on human agency
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Homer
Hook, Sidney
Hoover, Herbert
horizon: Darwinian; ethical; of inquiry; moral; narrative; objective; scientific; social
Hovencamp, Herbert
How We Think (Dewey)
human agency; crisis of
human development, science of
Human Nature and Conduct (Dewey)
Hume, David
Hursthouse, Rosalind
“I Believe” (Dewey)
idealism
ideals as ultimate ends
identity: constitution of; formation; modern; and narrative; self-reflective character of; teleological character of
imagination: and dramatic rehearsal; and sympathy
Individualism: Old and New (Dewey)
“industrial oligarchy,”
inequality, epistemic
inference
“Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, The” (Dewey)
inquiry: anti-authoritarian character of; conception of; cooperative; and democracy; democratic; horizon of; and humility; and the imagination; internal and external goods of; and legitimacy; and metaphysics; methods of; and morality; and piety; and practical wisdom; and reason-giving; and religious experience
instrumentalism
intelligence: and action; Dewey’s faith in; experimental; function of; method of; practical (phronēsis); redeeming; situated
Internet
intersubjectivity
Israel, Jonathan
Is There a God? A Conversation (Wieman, Macintosh, and Otto)
Jackson, Andrew
James, William
Jefferson, Thomas
Joas, Hans
John Dewey and American Democracy (Westbrook)
John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism (Rockefeller)
justification by faith
Kant, Immanuel
Kateb, George
Kestenbaum, Victor
Ketcham, Ralph
Kloppenberg, James
knowledge: acquisition of; claims; expert; growth of; local; model of
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
language acquisition
Lasch, Christopher
Lears, T. J. Jackson
Lefort, Claude
legitimacy: democratic; political
Leroux, Emmanuel
Levi, Isaac
liberalism
Liberalism and Social Action (Dewey)
Life of Reason, The (Santayana)
Lippmann, Walter; democratic elitism of; reliance on experts; and stereotypes
Livingston, David
Locke, John
Logic (Dewey)
Lovibond, Sabina
Luther, Martin
MacGilvray, Eric
Machiavelli
Macintosh, Douglas Clyde
MacIntyre, Alasdair
Madison, James
“Man the Reformer” (Emerson)
Markell, Patchen
Marx, Karl
McCosh, James
McDowell, John; crisis in normative evaluation; and the second nature
Mead, George Herbert
metaphysics; and inquiry; and ontology
Meyer, D. H.
Miller, David
Mills, C. Wright
Misak, Cheryl
modernity; Dewey’s views on
moral: agency; conflicts; deliberation; knowledge, objectivity of; life; philosophy; pluralism; problems; reflection; transcendence
morality: and best achievable state; customary and reflective; and “life,” internal process of; and mutual responsiveness; theories of
Moral Man and Immoral Society (Niebuhr)
“Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life, The” (James)
Morris, Donald
Munger, Theodore
natality
Nation of Agents, A (Block)
naturalism; ethical; religious
natural selection
nature
Nature (Emerson)
Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (Niebuhr)
Neurath, Otto
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
nihilism
Noll, Mark
“Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy” (Wolin)
normative evaluation, crisis of
norms
Nussbaum, Martha
oligarchy
ontology, strong and weak
Origin of Species, The (Darwin)
Otto, Max
Oxford English Dictionary
Paul, Apostle
Peirce, Charles S.
Pettit, Philip
Phantom Public, The
Phenomena and noumena
philosophy; of action; moral
“Philosophy and American National Life” (Dewey)
phronēsis; and deliberation; and moral virtues
piety: defined; democratic; and faith; and the past
Plato
pluralism; religious
Political Liberalism (Rawls)
postmodernism, apocalyptical
power, political: abuse of ; arbitrary; democracy as managing; experts and citizens, relationship between; and freedom; and hierarchical relationships; legitimacy of; state, ossification of. See also democracy
power and domination
pragmatism, pragmatists
Princeton Review
Princeton Seminary
problem-solving
progress: Dewey’s faith in; evolution as
Progressive movement
Progress of Thought in the Church, The (Beecher)
Protestantism
Protestant millennialism
Protestants, conservative
Protestants, liberal; Dewey’s response to; experimentalism of; optimism of
Psychological Method in Ethics (Dewey)
Public and Its Problems, The (Dewey)
Public Opinion
publics; counterpublics; emerging
public schools, secularization of
public sphere; contingency of; and emergence of publics; and the state
Putnam, Hilary; criticisms of Dewey; on fallibilism; on pragmatism
Quest for Certainty, The (Dewey)
racism
Rancière, Jacques
Randall, John Herman
rationalism; Kantian
rationality
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Rawls, John
realism
realists, democratic
reality, rational character of
reason and faith, relation between
reason-giving; and democracy
reconciliation; and quest for certainty
Reconstruction in Philosophy (Dewey)
Reid, Thomas
reification
religion: definition of; Dewey on; and political proposals; relation to science
“Religion and Our Schools” (Dewey)
Religious Aspect of Evolution, The (McCosh)
religious certainty, crisis of
religious naturalism
Republic (Plato)
Republicanism
Richardson, Henry
Right, the
Rockefeller, Steven C.
Rorty, Richard
Russel, Bertrand
Ryan, Alan
Sandel, Michael
Santayana, George
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Savage, Daniel M., 286n63
Scaff, Lawrence
Schmitt, Carl
Schneider, Herbert
Schumpeter, Joseph
science and politics
science and religion, relation between
science and theology, union of
“Science as a Vocation” (Weber)
scientific method
Scripture. See also Bible
second nature
self, constitution of the
self, tragic
self-assertion
self-reliance; democracy and; moral dimension of
self-understanding
“Sentiment of Rationality, The” (James)
Shapiro, Ian
Shook, John
sick soul; described; and modernity; and self-assertion. See also spiritual sickness
sincerity, issue of
slavery
Smith, Adam
social capital debates
social engineering
Social Gospel movement
socialization
social movements; and flank movements
soteriology
Spencer, Herbert
spiritual sickness, Protestant self-assertion and. See also sick soul
state: and the demos; church and; and elites; openness of; ossification of the; power of; public and the
Stout, Jeffrey
Strauss, Leo
subjectivism
subjectivity; inter-subjectivity
suffrage
supernaturalism
Sustaining Affirmation (White)
sympathy; and imagination; intelligent; and the other
Systematic Theology (Hodge)
Talisse, Robert
Taylor, Charles
technē
theology, liberal
Theology of an Evolutionist, The (Abbott)
theory and practice (theōria and praxis)
Thompson, Dennis
“Three Independent Factors of Morals” (Dewey)
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tolstoy, Leo
totalitarian regimes
transactionalism
transcendentalism,
transformation
“Transgression, Equality, and Voice” (Wolin)
Tufts, James Hayden
Ultimate Design
uncertainty; action and; in democracy; of the public sphere; responses to. See also contingency
United States; 19th-century; sectarian conflict; science and religion in
Universal Being
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Vermont
values, socially constructed character of
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (James)
Vernant, Jean-Pierre
Villa, Dana
Ward, Keith
Weber, Max; and crisis of the modern self; and crisis of normative evaluation; disenchantment thesis; Weltanschauungen
Weltanschauungen
West, Cornel
Westbrook, Robert
“What I Believe” (Dewey)
What Is Darwinism? (Hodge)
White, Stephen
Whitman, Walt
Wieman, Nelson
William, Bernard
wisdom: access to; practical; principles as cumulative
Wolin, Sheldon; on democracy; and hierarchy
Yale University
Young, Iris Marion