Ethics - Classic Reprint Author:John Dewey PREFACE THE significance of this text in Ethics lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the valuc of reflective thought in dealing with them. To this purpose are subordinated the presentation in Part 1. of historic material ~ the discussion in Part II. of the different types of theoretical int... more »erpretation, and the consideration, in Part III., of some typical social and economic problems which characterize the pl'csent. Experience shows that the student of morals has difficulty in getting the field objectively and definitely before him so that its problems strike him as real problems. Conduct is so intimate that it is not easy to analyze. It is so important that to a large extent the perspective for regarding it has been unconsciously fixed by early training. The historical method of approach has proved in the classroom experience of the authors an effective method of meeting these difficulties. To follow the moral l
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; 1 INTRODUCTION 1; § 1 Defiwition and Method:-Ethical and moral, specific; problem, 1; importance of genetic study, 3 § 2 Criterion of; the 'lnoml :-The moral in cross section, the" what" and the; "how," 5; the moral as growth, 8 § 3 Divisions of the; treatment, 13; PART I; THE BEGINNINGS AND GROWTH OF MORALITY; II EARLY GROUP LIFE 17; § 1 Typical facts of group life :-Primitive unity and; solidarity, 17 § 2 Kinship and household groups :-The; kinship group, ~l; Ule family or household group, 23; § 3 Kinship and family g),oups as econo·mic and iru/;ust)'ial; unitt :-The land and the group, 24; movable goods, 25; § 4 Kinship and family g1'OUpS as political bod'ies :-Their; control over the indhidual, 26; rights and responsibility, 21; § c Tho kinliltip or houschold aa a ,·elig·jO'tul unit :-Totem; group!;, 30; ancestral religion, 31 § 6 Age (tnd sex 9"oups,; ::!2 § 7 Moral Significance of tlte gmup« less