Human nature and conduct an introduction to social psychology

Dewey, John 1859-1952 (Author).

Item details

Physical Description: print
336 pages 17 cm.
Publisher: New York, Modern library [©1957]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

The place of habit in conduct. Habits as social functions -- Habits and will -- Character and conduct -- Custom and habit -- Custom and morality -- Habit and social psychology -- The place of impulse in conduct. Impulses and change of habits -- Plasticity of impulse -- Changing human nature -- Impulse and conflict of habits -- Classification of instincts -- No separate instincts -- Impulse and thought -- The place of intelligence in conduct. Habit and intelligence -- The psychology of thinking -- The nature of deliberation -- Deliberation and calculation -- The uniqueness of good -- The nature of aims -- The nature of principles -- Desire and intelligence -- The present and future -- Conclusion. The good of activity -- Morals are human -- What is freedom? -- Morality is social.