Human Nature and Conduct · John Dewey
_PART THREE_ THE PLACE OF INTELLIGENCE IN CONDUCT
SECTION I: HABIT AND INTELLIGENCE 172 Habits and intellect; mind, habit and impulse. SECTION II: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THINKING 181 The trinity of intellect; conscience and its alleged separate subject-matter. SECTION III: THE NATURE OF DELIBERATION 189 Deliberation as imaginative rehearsal; preference and choice; strife of reason and passion; nature of reason. SECTION IV: DELIBERATION AND CALCULATION 199 Error in utilitarian theory; place of the pleasant; hedonistic calculus; deliberation and prediction. SECTION V: THE UNIQUENESS OF GOOD 210 Fallacy of a single good; applied to utilitarianism; profit and personality; means and ends. SECTION VI: THE NATURE OF AIMS 223 Theory of final ends; aims as directive means; ends as justifying means; meaning well as an aim; wishes and aims. SECTION VII: THE NATURE OF PRINCIPLES 238 Desire for certainty; morals and probabilities; importance of generalizations. SECTION VIII: DESIRE AND INTELLIGENCE 248 Object and consequence of desire; desire and quiescence; self-deception in desire; desire needs intelligence; nature of idealism; living in the ideal. SECTION IX: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE 265 Subordination of activity to result; control of future; production and consummation; idealism and distant goals. SECTION I: THE GOOD OF ACTIVITY 278 Better and worse; morality a process; evolution and progress; optimism; Epicureanism; making others happy. SECTION II: MORALS ARE HUMAN 295 Humane morals; natural law and morals; place of science. SECTION III: WHAT IS FREEDOM? 303 Elements in freedom; capacity in action; novel possibilities; force of desire. SECTION IV: MORALITY IS SOCIAL 314 Conscience and responsibility; social pressure and opportunity; exaggeration of blame; importance of social psychology; category of right; the community as religious symbol.
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