The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thoughtDewey, John
Philosophy
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
Dewey, John
Evolution; Philosophy; Pragmatism
Rationalism, _Essay XI._, 271-304
“Reality,” 98, 105, 113, 129, 169 n., 172, 228, 264
Relation, and appearance, 119-120
Santayana, G., 96, 224 n.
Sciences, developed out of morals, 56;
and industry, 57-58;
as mode of knowledge, 108;
and philosophy, 268-270, 287
Sensation, 94, 262 n.
Sensationalism, _Essay XI._, 271-304
Social Ethics, 302-304
Socrates, 51, 76, 275, 304
Species, equivalent to scholastic form, 3-4;
as eternal and teleological, 4-5;
basis of knowledge, 6-7
Spencer, Herbert, 16, 33, 66
Spinoza, 181
Stoicism, 172, 279
Stuart, H. W., 214 n.
Subjective, 98, 155, 204 n., 270
Teleology, of life, 4;
of nature, 10, 32;
basis of idealism, 11;
concrete, 15, 22;
and evolution, 32-35;
subjective, 223-224
Theory, 124-127
Thinking, practical character of, 124-127
Tolstoi, 173 n.
Transcendence, of knowledge, 103 n., 156-157
Transcendental, and supernatural, 22, 29, 282;
view of knowledge, 24, 27;
freedom, 74
Truth, criterion of, 92, 95, 107-111;
_Essay IV._, 112-153;
absolute, 137;
identified with existence, 138, 145;
eternal, 147, 152;
_Essay V._, 154-168;
230-231, 237, 282
Utilitarianism, 62
Verification, making true, 139 ff., 162-164
Woodbridge, F. J. E., 104 n., 240 n.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The affair is even more portentous in the German with its
capital letters and series of _muses_: “Gewiss ist der Pragmatismus
erkenntnisstheoretisch Nominalismus, psychologisch Voluntarismus,
naturphilosophisch Energismus, metaphysisch Agnosticismus, ethisch
Meliorismus auf Grundlage des Bentham-Millschen Utilitarismus.”
[2] A lecture in a course of public lectures on “Charles Darwin and His
Influence on Science,” given at Columbia University in the winter and
spring of 1909. Reprinted from the _Popular Science Monthly_ for July,
1909.
[3] “Life and Letters,” Vol. I., p. 282; cf. 285.
[4] “Life and Letters,” Vol. II., pp. 146, 170, 245; Vol. I., pp.
283-84. See also the closing portion of his “Variations of Animals and
Plants under Domestication.”
[5] Reprinted from the _Hibbert Journal_, Vol. VII., No. 4, July, 1909.
[6] A public lecture delivered at Columbia University in March, 1908,
under the title of “Ethics,” in a series of lectures on “Science,
Philosophy, and Art.” Reprinted from a monograph published by the
Columbia University Press.
[7] Reprinted, with considerable change in the arrangement and in the
matter of the latter portion, from _Mind_, Vol. XV., N.S., July, 1906.
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