Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

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

Dewey, John

Ethics

Hedonism--defined 14 ff.
    --its paradox 25.
    --confuses feeling and idea 26; 43 ff.
    --summarized 30.
    --all motives good 33.
    --its calculus 36.
    --fails to provide laws 39 ff.
    --its contrast with Kantianism 82 ff.
    --its treatment of obligation 140 ff.
    --is correct in holding rightness to be pleasurable 228.
    --truth and falsity in 234.

  Hegel--quoted: on reflective conscience 188;
      on merely individual conscience 189.

  Hinton, J.--quoted: on altruism 109;
      on badness 216.
    --referred to: 202.

  Hodgson, S. H.--referred to: 14.


  Idealism--when feeble 128.

  Ideals--moral, progressive, 206.

  Imperative, Categorical--of Kant 147.
    --of conscience 191.

  Impulse--and pleasure 17.
    --and desire 22.
    --nature of action from 159.
    --see desire.

  Individuality--defined 97.
    --not identical with inner side alone 98.
    --evils of defining from this standpoint 110.
    --made by function 131.
    --realized is autonomy 150.
    --realized is freedom 164.
    --growth in 210.
    --see freedom and rights.

  Institutions--nature of 169 ff.
    --sovereignty, rights and law inhere in 171 ff.
    --influence of, upon conscience 184; 189.
    --movement of, the source of duties, 194.
    --see common good and society.

  Interests--are functions on personal side 102 ff.
    --classified and discussed 104 ff.
    --social, involve science and art 123 ff.
    --realized in institutions 170.
    --their relation to conscience 198.
    --pure, are virtue 228.
    --the active element of 218.
    --the freeing of, the moral goal 233.


  James, Sr., H.--referred to: 202.

  James, Wm.--quoted: on pleasure and desire 20.
    --referred to: 77.


  Kant--agrees with hedonism as to end of desire 79.
    --his end an abstraction 84.
    --his practical ideal that of Mill and Spencer 93.
    --value of his theory 93.
    --his theory of obligation 147.
    --his conception of autonomy 149.
    --his idea of duty 156.
    --his conception of practical reason 191.
    --quoted: on pleasure 47;
      on pleasure as common good 52;
      on priority of duty to good 78;
      on good will 79;
      his formula for right action 80;
      illustrations of moral law 80 ff.
    --referred to: 14; 78; 212; 221; 235.

  Kantianism--compared with hedonism 82 ff.
    --its practical breakdown 90.

  Knowledge--moral effect of advance in 207.
    --socializes wants 237.
    --see art.


  Laurie, S. S.--quoted: on happiness 66.
    --referred to: 227.

  Law--utilitarian use of 58; 61 ff.
    --Kant's moral, formal 78.
    --relation to desire 94.
    --realized in institutions 172; 174.
    --of the 'is', not merely of the 'ought' 175.
    --idea of, in general 195.
    --see obligation.

  Lawlessness--involved in morality 216.

  Leckey--referred to: 66.

  Limitation--the basis of moral strength 128.

  Lincoln, A.--anecdote regarding 28.

  Lotze--referred to: 16; 166.

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Outlines of a Critical Theory of EthicsDewey, John

Philosophy

Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

Dewey, John

Ethics

Hedonism--defined 14 ff.
    --its paradox 25.
    --confuses feeling and idea 26; 43 ff.
    --summarized 30.
    --all motives good 33.
    --its calculus 36.
    --fails to provide laws 39 ff.
    --its contrast with Kantianism 82 ff.
    --its treatment of obligation 140 ff.
    --is correct in holding rightness to be pleasurable 228.
    --truth and falsity in 234.

  Hegel--quoted: on reflective conscience 188;
      on merely individual conscience 189.

  Hinton, J.--quoted: on altruism 109;
      on badness 216.
    --referred to: 202.

  Hodgson, S. H.--referred to: 14.


  Idealism--when feeble 128.

  Ideals--moral, progressive, 206.

  Imperative, Categorical--of Kant 147.
    --of conscience 191.

  Impulse--and pleasure 17.
    --and desire 22.
    --nature of action from 159.
    --see desire.

  Individuality--defined 97.
    --not identical with inner side alone 98.
    --evils of defining from this standpoint 110.
    --made by function 131.
    --realized is autonomy 150.
    --realized is freedom 164.
    --growth in 210.
    --see freedom and rights.

  Institutions--nature of 169 ff.
    --sovereignty, rights and law inhere in 171 ff.
    --influence of, upon conscience 184; 189.
    --movement of, the source of duties, 194.
    --see common good and society.

  Interests--are functions on personal side 102 ff.
    --classified and discussed 104 ff.
    --social, involve science and art 123 ff.
    --realized in institutions 170.
    --their relation to conscience 198.
    --pure, are virtue 228.
    --the active element of 218.
    --the freeing of, the moral goal 233.


  James, Sr., H.--referred to: 202.

  James, Wm.--quoted: on pleasure and desire 20.
    --referred to: 77.


  Kant--agrees with hedonism as to end of desire 79.
    --his end an abstraction 84.
    --his practical ideal that of Mill and Spencer 93.
    --value of his theory 93.
    --his theory of obligation 147.
    --his conception of autonomy 149.
    --his idea of duty 156.
    --his conception of practical reason 191.
    --quoted: on pleasure 47;
      on pleasure as common good 52;
      on priority of duty to good 78;
      on good will 79;
      his formula for right action 80;
      illustrations of moral law 80 ff.
    --referred to: 14; 78; 212; 221; 235.

  Kantianism--compared with hedonism 82 ff.
    --its practical breakdown 90.

  Knowledge--moral effect of advance in 207.
    --socializes wants 237.
    --see art.


  Laurie, S. S.--quoted: on happiness 66.
    --referred to: 227.

  Law--utilitarian use of 58; 61 ff.
    --Kant's moral, formal 78.
    --relation to desire 94.
    --realized in institutions 172; 174.
    --of the 'is', not merely of the 'ought' 175.
    --idea of, in general 195.
    --see obligation.

  Lawlessness--involved in morality 216.

  Leckey--referred to: 66.

  Limitation--the basis of moral strength 128.

  Lincoln, A.--anecdote regarding 28.

  Lotze--referred to: 16; 166.

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Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

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