Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

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

Dewey, John

Ethics

Desire--pleasure as end of 16; 18 ff.
    --defined 19.
    --how spiritualized 23.
    --not purely pleasurable 27.
    --an expression of character 28.
    --excluded from moral motive by Kant 79.
    --all or no involved in morality 94.
    --relation to pleasure 83.
    --particular, an abstraction 96.
    --how distinguished from interest 103.
    --opposed to reason by Kant 147.
    --when opposed to moral action 148; 155; 213; 216.
    --how socialized, 237.

  Dewey, J.--referred to: 25; 78; 194.

  Disinterestedness--equals full interest 107.
    --an aspect of cardinal virtue 232.

  Disposition--Bentham on 35.

  Dualism--the Kantian 148 ff.

  Duty--see obligation.


  Egoism--see altruism.

  Empiricism--Spencer's reconciliation with intuitionalism 69 ff.

  End--moral: see common good; function; motive.

  Environment--defined by relation to capacity 99 ff.
    --meaning of adjustment to 115 ff.
    --moral, exists in institutions 171.
    --badness of, an element in right action 176; 190.
    --enlarged by moral action 207.

  Ethical World--discussed 167 ff.
    --nature illustrated 168.
    --relation to moral law 174.
    --see Institutions.

  Ethics--defined 1.
    --divided 3.
    --its object according to Spencer 68.
    --see theory.

  Evolution, Theory of--combined with hedonism 67 ff.
    --not really hedonistic 71 ff.
    --its real standard objective 72.


  Faith--a factor in moral progress 123; 127 ff.
    --in humanity, meaning of 129.
    --why demanded in moral action 217; 222.

  Feelings--natural and moral 5 ff.; 25 ff.; 87.
    --sympathetic relied upon by utilitarians 57.
    --necessary in moral activity 85.
    --active, equal interests 102.
    --moral, defined by end 108;
      see also motive.
    --value of 195 ff.
    --moral, not too narrowly limited 199.

  Freedom--is object of desire 24.
    --equals exercise of function 138.
    --various aspects of 158.
    --of choice defined 159.
    --of indifference discussed 161 ff.
    --actualized in rights 172; 174.
    --positive, realized in virtues 229.

  Function--union of capacity and circumstance in act 103.
    --freedom found in exercise of 164 ff.


  Gizycki--referred to: 66.

  God--an external, cannot be the source of obligation 149.

  Goethe--referred to: 128.

  Golden Rule--identified by Mill with principle of utilitarianism 59.
    --gives no directions as to conduct 204.
    --is a concrete statement of ethical postulate 205.

  Green, T. H.--quoted: on desire and pleasure 21;
      on sum of pleasures 43;
      on nature of happiness 45;
      on conscientiousness 200; 202;
      on goodness 215.
    --referred to: 9; 25; 42; 54; 110; 158; 165.

  Grote, J.--referred to: 66; 158.

  Guyau--referred to: 66; 143.

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Outlines of a Critical Theory of EthicsDewey, John

Philosophy

Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

Dewey, John

Ethics

Desire--pleasure as end of 16; 18 ff.
    --defined 19.
    --how spiritualized 23.
    --not purely pleasurable 27.
    --an expression of character 28.
    --excluded from moral motive by Kant 79.
    --all or no involved in morality 94.
    --relation to pleasure 83.
    --particular, an abstraction 96.
    --how distinguished from interest 103.
    --opposed to reason by Kant 147.
    --when opposed to moral action 148; 155; 213; 216.
    --how socialized, 237.

  Dewey, J.--referred to: 25; 78; 194.

  Disinterestedness--equals full interest 107.
    --an aspect of cardinal virtue 232.

  Disposition--Bentham on 35.

  Dualism--the Kantian 148 ff.

  Duty--see obligation.


  Egoism--see altruism.

  Empiricism--Spencer's reconciliation with intuitionalism 69 ff.

  End--moral: see common good; function; motive.

  Environment--defined by relation to capacity 99 ff.
    --meaning of adjustment to 115 ff.
    --moral, exists in institutions 171.
    --badness of, an element in right action 176; 190.
    --enlarged by moral action 207.

  Ethical World--discussed 167 ff.
    --nature illustrated 168.
    --relation to moral law 174.
    --see Institutions.

  Ethics--defined 1.
    --divided 3.
    --its object according to Spencer 68.
    --see theory.

  Evolution, Theory of--combined with hedonism 67 ff.
    --not really hedonistic 71 ff.
    --its real standard objective 72.


  Faith--a factor in moral progress 123; 127 ff.
    --in humanity, meaning of 129.
    --why demanded in moral action 217; 222.

  Feelings--natural and moral 5 ff.; 25 ff.; 87.
    --sympathetic relied upon by utilitarians 57.
    --necessary in moral activity 85.
    --active, equal interests 102.
    --moral, defined by end 108;
      see also motive.
    --value of 195 ff.
    --moral, not too narrowly limited 199.

  Freedom--is object of desire 24.
    --equals exercise of function 138.
    --various aspects of 158.
    --of choice defined 159.
    --of indifference discussed 161 ff.
    --actualized in rights 172; 174.
    --positive, realized in virtues 229.

  Function--union of capacity and circumstance in act 103.
    --freedom found in exercise of 164 ff.


  Gizycki--referred to: 66.

  God--an external, cannot be the source of obligation 149.

  Goethe--referred to: 128.

  Golden Rule--identified by Mill with principle of utilitarianism 59.
    --gives no directions as to conduct 204.
    --is a concrete statement of ethical postulate 205.

  Green, T. H.--quoted: on desire and pleasure 21;
      on sum of pleasures 43;
      on nature of happiness 45;
      on conscientiousness 200; 202;
      on goodness 215.
    --referred to: 9; 25; 42; 54; 110; 158; 165.

  Grote, J.--referred to: 66; 158.

  Guyau--referred to: 66; 143.

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Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

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