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Paperback Recovering Benjamin Franklin Book

ISBN: 0812693876

ISBN13: 9780812693874

Recovering Benjamin Franklin

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Is Benjamin Franklin, the familiar cultural icon whose face appears on coins, currency, and postage stamps, in addition to being an affable inventor, printer, and humorist also an important American... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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wonderful sense of the period

Campbell, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toledo, is one of America's foremost experts on the development of the philosophy of pragmatism. In this book, he has carried his studies on that development into what one may call its fetal period -- the pre-pragmatism of Ben Franklin. The essential insight of pragmatism, and of Franklin, Campbell tells, us, is that the "search for wisdom" cannot be understood aside from the effort to "advance human well-being."This is a wonderful book, and it brings alive the leading ideas of the generation of the founding fathers in a way few other recent books have!
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