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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ethics, by John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts

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Title: Ethics

Author: John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts

Release Date: April 28, 2012 [eBook #39551]

Language: English

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American Science Series

ETHICS

by

JOHN DEWEY

Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University

and

JAMES H. TUFTS

Professor of Philosophy in the University of Chicago

[Illustration]

New York

Henry Holt and Company

London: George Bell and Sons

1909

Copyright, 1908,

by

Henry Holt and Company

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

value of reflective thought in dealing with them. To this purpose

are subordinated the presentation in Part I. of historic material;

the discussion in Part II. of the different types of theoretical

interpretation, and the consideration, in Part III., of some typical

social and economic problems which characterize the present.

Experience shows that the student of morals has difficulty in getting

the field objectively and definitely before him so that its problems