Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

Name: Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics
Author: Dewey, John

Dewey, John

Ethics

Butler--Bishop, quoted: on conscience 167.
    --referred to: 110.


  Caird, E.--quoted: on collision of moral ends 88.
    --referred to: 21; 82; 87; 91; 92; 93; 95; 109; 111; 149; 165.

  Calderwood--referred to: 158; 166.

  Capacity--its relation to environment 97.
    --increased by moral action 206.

  Carlyle, T.--referred to: 128.

  Casuistry--inevitable, if moral end is not wholly social 119.

  Character--reciprocal with conduct 9.
    --the source of motive, desire and moral pleasure 26 ff.
    --separated from conduct by hedonists 32 ff.
    --and virtues 227 ff.
    --see capacity, conduct, interests and motive.

  Charity--idea of, involves social inequality 125.

  Christianity--ethical influence of 224.
    --has no specific ethical code 231.

  Coit, S.--referred to: 28; 66.

  Commands--moral value of: 203.

  Common Good--an ethical ideal 51.
    --not furnished by hedonism 60.
    --not furnished by Kant 91.
    --why necessarily involved in morality 117; 217; 222.
    --demands reciprocal satisfaction of individual and society 127.
    --its existence postulated by moral conduct 130.
    --results from exercise of function 168.
    --constituted by activity 169 ff.
    --realized in institutions 173.
    --development of 210.
    --see institutions and society.

  Comprehensiveness--growth of, in moral end 210 ff.

  Conduct--defined 3.
    --relation to consequences 7.
    --relation to character 9.
    --an individual system 133.
    --a social system 136.
    --how related to character 163.
    --see activity, consequences, character and motive.

  Conflict--of moral ends 88 ff.
    --morality has an aspect of 151; 227.

  Conscience--Bain's idea of 141.
    --equals consciousness of action 181.
    --elements in 182.
    --not a special faculty 183.
    --kinds of 183 ff.
    --not merely individual 188.

  Conscientiousness--nature of 199.
    --does not equal introspection 200.
    --nor application of code 201.
    --a cardinal virtue 232.

  Consequences--moral value of 7 ff.; 84; 114; 160.
    --excluded from morality by Kantianism 13; 29.
    --identified with moral value by hedonism 33.
    --responsibility for 160.

  Criterion--hedonistic is pleasure 15.
    --criticism of hedonistic 31 ff.
    --two ends to be met by every 32.
    --of higher and lower pleasures 49 ff.
    --when pleasure may be a 50.
    --Mill's really social 63.
    --Spencer's really social 73.
    --Kant's nominally formal 79 ff.
    --the real 132 ff.
    --its elasticity 135.


  Darwin, C.--referred to: 78.

  Demoralization--involved in badness 220.

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Outlines of a Critical Theory of EthicsDewey, John

Philosophy

Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

Dewey, John

Ethics

Butler--Bishop, quoted: on conscience 167.
    --referred to: 110.


  Caird, E.--quoted: on collision of moral ends 88.
    --referred to: 21; 82; 87; 91; 92; 93; 95; 109; 111; 149; 165.

  Calderwood--referred to: 158; 166.

  Capacity--its relation to environment 97.
    --increased by moral action 206.

  Carlyle, T.--referred to: 128.

  Casuistry--inevitable, if moral end is not wholly social 119.

  Character--reciprocal with conduct 9.
    --the source of motive, desire and moral pleasure 26 ff.
    --separated from conduct by hedonists 32 ff.
    --and virtues 227 ff.
    --see capacity, conduct, interests and motive.

  Charity--idea of, involves social inequality 125.

  Christianity--ethical influence of 224.
    --has no specific ethical code 231.

  Coit, S.--referred to: 28; 66.

  Commands--moral value of: 203.

  Common Good--an ethical ideal 51.
    --not furnished by hedonism 60.
    --not furnished by Kant 91.
    --why necessarily involved in morality 117; 217; 222.
    --demands reciprocal satisfaction of individual and society 127.
    --its existence postulated by moral conduct 130.
    --results from exercise of function 168.
    --constituted by activity 169 ff.
    --realized in institutions 173.
    --development of 210.
    --see institutions and society.

  Comprehensiveness--growth of, in moral end 210 ff.

  Conduct--defined 3.
    --relation to consequences 7.
    --relation to character 9.
    --an individual system 133.
    --a social system 136.
    --how related to character 163.
    --see activity, consequences, character and motive.

  Conflict--of moral ends 88 ff.
    --morality has an aspect of 151; 227.

  Conscience--Bain's idea of 141.
    --equals consciousness of action 181.
    --elements in 182.
    --not a special faculty 183.
    --kinds of 183 ff.
    --not merely individual 188.

  Conscientiousness--nature of 199.
    --does not equal introspection 200.
    --nor application of code 201.
    --a cardinal virtue 232.

  Consequences--moral value of 7 ff.; 84; 114; 160.
    --excluded from morality by Kantianism 13; 29.
    --identified with moral value by hedonism 33.
    --responsibility for 160.

  Criterion--hedonistic is pleasure 15.
    --criticism of hedonistic 31 ff.
    --two ends to be met by every 32.
    --of higher and lower pleasures 49 ff.
    --when pleasure may be a 50.
    --Mill's really social 63.
    --Spencer's really social 73.
    --Kant's nominally formal 79 ff.
    --the real 132 ff.
    --its elasticity 135.


  Darwin, C.--referred to: 78.

  Demoralization--involved in badness 220.

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Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

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