Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology
Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology
A radical rethinking of morality waits in these pages. John Dewey, the philosopher who shaped American thought for half a century, argues that traditional ethics has made a catastrophic error: treating human nature as something suspicious, something to be overcome rather than understood. The result is a moral philosophy utterly disconnected from how humans actually behave. Dewey offers something different. Drawing on emerging psychology and physiology, he examines the habits that govern our daily conduct, the impulses that drive our choices, and the social environments that shape who we become. He argues that morality cannot be built on abstract ideals divorced from empirical reality. Instead, ethical life emerges from understanding our natural capacities - the remarkable human ability to transform impulse through intelligence into habit, and habit into character. This is philosophy with practical urgency. It explains why we so often fail to live up to our own ideals, and what a genuinely realistic ethics might look like. Over a century later, its diagnosis of the gap between moral theory and human practice feels more urgent than ever.
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“Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like everybody else that one passes unnoticed. Conventional morality is a drab morality, in which the only fatal thing is to be conspicuous. If there be flavor left in it, then some natural traits have somehow escaped being subdued.””
— John Dewey
“Los principios son métodos de investigación y previsión que requieren ser comprobados por los acontecimientos; y el esfuerzo, dignificado por el tiempo, de asimilar la moral a las matemáticas, es solo una forma de dar apoyo a una antigua autoridad dogmática o de sentar una nueva en el trono de aquella; pero el carácter experimental de los juicios morales no significa que sean completamente inciertos y efímeros. Los principios existen como hipótesis con las cuales experimentar””
— John Dewey
“We must stop even thinking of standing up straight. To think of it is fatal, for it commits us to the operation of an established habit of standing wrong. We must find an act within our power which is disconnected from any thought about standing. We must start to do another thing which on one side inhibits our falling into the customary bad position and on the other side is the beginning of a series of acts which may lead into the correct posture.[2] The hard-drinker””
— John Dewey
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