Human Nature and Conduct

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Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 2002 - Psychology - 336 pages
Influential work by the great educator/philosopher maintains that the key to social psychology lies in an understanding of the many varieties of habit; individual mental activity is guided by subordinate factors of impulse and intelligence. His investigation focuses on three main areas of conduct: habit, impulse, and intelligence, with each factor receiving an incisive treatment.
 

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THE PLACE OF HABIT IN CONDUCT
14
HABITS AND WILL
24
CHARACTER AND CONDUCT
43
CUSTOM AND HABIT
58
CUSTOM AND MORALITY
75
HABIT AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
84
THE PLACE OF IMPULSE IN CONDUCT
89
PLASTICITY OF IMPULSE
95
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THINKING
181
THE NATURE OF DELIBERATION
189
DELIBERATION AND CALCULATION
199
THE UNIQUENESS OF GOOD
210
THE NATURE OF AIMS
223
THE NATURE OF PRINCIPLES
238
DESIRE AND INTELLIGENCE
248
THE PRESENT AND FUTURE
265

CHANGING HUMAN NATURE
106
IMPULSE AND CONFLICT OF HABITS
125
CLASSIFICATION OF INSTINCTS
131
NO SEPARATE INSTINCTS
149
IMPULSE AND THOUGHT
169
THE PLACE OF INTELLIGENCE IN CONDUCT
172
CONCLUSION
278
MORALS ARE HUMAN
295
WHAT IS FREEDOM?
303
MORALITY IS SOCIAL
314
INDEX
333
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John Dewey was born in 1859 in Burlington, Vermont. He founded the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago in 1896 to apply his original theories of learning based on pragmatism and "directed living." This combination of learning with concrete activities and practical experience helped earn him the title, "father of progressive education." After leaving Chicago he went to Columbia University as a professor of philosophy from 1904 to 1930, bringing his educational philosophy to the Teachers College there. Dewey was known and consulted internationally for his opinions on a wide variety of social, educational and political issues. His many books on these topics began with Psychology (1887), and include The School and Society (1899), Experience and Nature (1925), and Freedom and Culture (1939).Dewey died of pneumonia in 1952.

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