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Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Ethics / by John Dewey and James H. Tufts. - New York : H. Holt and Co., [1908] - xiii, 618 p. ; 21 cm. - American science series. .

"Literature" at end of chapters.

I. Beginnings and growth of morality --
The rationalizing and socializing agencies in early society --
Group morality, customs or mores --
From custom to conscience: from group morality to personal morality --
The Hebrew moral development --
The moral development of the Greeks --
The modern period --
A general comparison of customary and reflective morality --
II. Theory of the moral life --
Problems of moral theory --
Conduct and character --
Happiness and conduct: the good and desire --
Happiness and social ends --
Place of reason in the moral life: moral knowledge --
Place of duty in the moral life: subjection to authority --
The place of the self in the moral life --
Virtues --
III. Social organization and the individual --
Civil society and the political state --
The ethics of the economic life --
Some principles in the economic order --
Unsettled problems in the economic order --
The Family.

LCCN: 08022532

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethics.

Dewey Class. No.: 170