What is the most important philosophy that affects American thinking? For example, China has Marxist philosophy.

This is a good question: The main influence on the United States is Christian philosophical thought, because the ideas of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" advocated by Americans, including the Western world, can find their original origins in the Christian classic Bible. , and the Bible is also the authoritative classic of Western Christian orthodoxy, almost influencing the development of the Western world. The United States is a country of immigrants. The roots of Americans are in Europe. The first outsiders in the United States and the residents who finally gained dominance in the United States were Europeans. This group of immigrants brought industrial civilization and the spirit of Puritanism to North America. Puritanism was the British The product of the religious reform, its ideological origin is derived from the traditional Christian philosophy that advocates rational belief, although it formally abolished the original cumbersome religious procedures. For information on this aspect, you can read Max Weber's "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism" published by Guangxi Normal University Press. However, in terms of philosophical origins, he still belongs to religious philosophy. Moreover, the universal values ??emphasized by Christianity, including its variants, satisfy the requirements of the emerging bourgeoisie. We can see that the Declaration of Independence, which has influenced the United States and even the world, advocates freedom, equality, and democracy. This can be seen as the development of the original religious philosophy by the emerging bourgeoisie. At the same time, as we said above, Americans are from Europe, and these Europeans are religious. At the same time, the majority of people in the United States believe in Christianity. You can check this information online. I haven't looked into it. This shows that the most important thing that affects the United States is religious philosophy, because most people not only bear the imprint of their original religious beliefs from geo-cultural relationships, but also from the perspective of social development, this part of things has been passed down. In other words, he plays a decisive role. As for pragmatism and utilitarianism, as a social trend of thought or philosophical school that influenced the United States for a period, it is just a passer-by that emerged on this soil, because for social development, pragmatism pays too much attention to practical results and is too utilitarian, which will lead to The gap between people. Social ethical issues arise. Therefore, Rawls proposed in "A Theory of Justice" that the core values ??of American society should be "fairness and justice." These can be seen as the development of the new era of freedom, democracy, and equality. As for analytic philosophy, it should be the mainstream in the United States, but if you want to say that it can influence the attention of Americans, it is absolutely impossible to influence Americans, because the language analysis of analytic philosophy is very technical. , most of them are limited to exchanges between philosophical academic schools and have not formed universal values ????that are as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as religions. Therefore, what dominates America is Christian thought.