Ethics · John Dewey
THE WORLD OF ACTION
XX. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND THE INDIVIDUAL 427 Object of discussion, 427. Sec. 1. _Growth of individuality through social organizations_:--Emancipation from custom, 428; double movement towards individuality and complex associations, 429; morality and legality, 432; two-fold contribution of social environment to individual morality, 433; moral value of the state, 434. Sec. 2. _Responsibility and freedom_:--Liability, 436; freedom as exemption and as power, 437; legal and moral freedom, 438. Sec. 3. _Rights and obligations_:--Their definition, 439; they are correlative, 440; physical rights, 442; limitations put upon them by war and punishment, 443; by poverty, 444; mental rights, 445; limitations to freedom of thought and expression, 446; education, 448. XXI. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE POLITICAL STATE 451 Sec. 1. _Civil rights and obligations_:--Their definition, 451; their classes, 452; significance of established remedies for wrongs, 454. Sec. 2. _Development of civil rights_:--Contrast with savage age justice, 456; social harm versus metaphysical evil, 457; recognition of accident and intent, 459; of character and circumstances, 460; of mental incapacity, 462; significance of negligence and carelessness, 464; conflict of substantial and technical justice, 465; relations of the legal and moral, 467; reform of criminal procedure necessary, 468; also of punitive methods, 470; and of civil administration, 471. Sec. 3. _Political rights and obligations_:--Significance of the state, 473; distrust of government, 474; indifference to politics, 476; political corruption, 477; reform of partisan machinery, 478; of governmental machinery, 479; constructive social legislation, 480; a federated humanity, 481. Sec. 4. _The moral criterion of political activity_:--Its statement, 482; the individualistic formula, 483; the collectivistic formula, 484.
XXII. THE ETHICS OF THE ECONOMIC LIFE 486 Sec. 1. _General analysis_:--The economic in relation to happiness, 487; relation to character, 488; social aspects, 491. Sec. 2. _The problem set by the new economic order_:--Collective and impersonal organizations, 495; readjustments required, 496. Sec. 3. _The agencies for carrying on commerce and industry_:--Early agencies, 497; the business enterprise, 498; the labor union, 499; reversion to group morality, 500; members and management, 500; employer and employed, 501; relations to the public, 502; to the law, 503. Sec. 4. _The methods of production, exchange, and valuation_:--The machine, 507; basis of valuation, 508. Sec. 5. _The factors which aid ethical reconstruction_:--Principles more easily seen, 511.
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