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John Dewey
The Essential John Dewey: 20+ Books in One Edition
Critical Expositions on the Nature of Truth, Ethics & Morality
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ISBN 978-80-272-2600-9
Table of Contents
German Philosophy and Politics
Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition
Ethics (with James Hayden Tufts)
Logical Conditions of a Scientific Treatment of Morality
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy
Nature and Its Good: A conversation
The Experimental Theory of Knowledge
The Intellectualist Criterion for Truth
A Short Catechism Concerning Truth
Experience and Objective Idealism
The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism
"Consciousness" and Experience
The Significance of the Problem of Knowledge
Does Reality Possess Practical Character?
The Chicago School by William James
John Dewey's Logical Theory by Delton Thomas Howard
The Pragmatic Theory of Truth as Developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Denton Loring Geyer
Philosophical Works
German Philosophy and Politics
I. German Philosophy: The Two Worlds
II. German Moral and Political Philosophy
III. The Germanic Philosophy of History
Preface
The will of John Calvin McNair established a Foundation at the University of North Carolina upon which public lectures are to be given from time to time to the members of the University. This book contains three lectures which were given in February of this year upon this Foundation. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many courtesies enjoyed during my brief stay at Chapel Hill, the seat of the University.
J. D.
Columbia University,
New York City, April, 1915.
I
German Philosophy: The Two Worlds
The nature of the influence of general ideas upon practical affairs is a troubled question. Mind dislikes to find itself a pilgrim in an alien world. A discovery that the belief in the influence of thought upon action is an illusion would leave men profoundly saddened with themselves and with the world. Were it not that the doctrine forbids any discovery influencing affairs—since the discovery would be an idea—we should say that the discovery of the wholly ex post facto and idle character of ideas would profoundly influence subsequent affairs. The strange thing is that when