Human Nature and Conduct: An introduction to social psychology

by John Dewey

PART ONE

THE PLACE OF HABIT IN CONDUCT

• Section I: Habits as Social Functions [14]
• Habits as functions and arts; social complicity; subjective factor.
• Section II: Habits and Will [24]
• Active means; ideas of ends; means and ends; nature of character.
• Section III: Character and Conduct [43]
• Good will and consequences; virtues and natural goods; objective and subjective morals.
• Section IV: Custom and Habit [58]
• Human psychology is social; habit as conservative; mind and body.
• Section V: Custom and Morality [75]
• Customs as standards; authority of standards; class conflicts.
• Section VI: Habit and Social Psychology [84]
• Isolation of individuality; newer movements.

PART TWO

THE PLACE OF IMPULSE IN CONDUCT

• Section I: Impulses and Change of Habits [89]
• Present interest in instincts; impulses as re-organizing.
• Section II: Plasticity of Impulse [95]
• Impulse and education; uprush of impulse; fixed codes.
• Section III: Changing Human Nature [106]
• Habits the inert factor; modification of impulses; war a social function; economic regimes as social products; nature of motives.
• Section IV: Impulse and Conflict of Habits [125]
• Possibility of social betterment; conservatism.
• Section V: Classification of Instincts [131]
• False simplifications; "self-love"; will to power; acquisitive and creative.
• Section VI: No Separate Instincts [149]
• Uniqueness of acts; possibilities of operation; necessity of play and art; rebelliousness.
• Section VII: Impulse and Thought [169]

PART THREE

THE PLACE OF INTELLIGENCE IN CONDUCT

• Section I: Habit and Intelligence [172]
• Habits and intellect; mind, habit and impulse.
• Section II: The Psychology of Thinking [181]
• The trinity of intellect; conscience and its alleged separate subject-matter.
• Section III: The Nature of Deliberation [189]
• Deliberation as imaginative rehearsal; preference and choice; strife of reason and passion; nature of reason.
• Section IV: Deliberation and Calculation [199]
• Error in utilitarian theory; place of the pleasant; hedonistic calculus; deliberation and prediction.
• Section V: The Uniqueness of Good [210]
• Fallacy of a single good; applied to utilitarianism; profit and personality; means and ends.
• Section VI: The Nature of Aims [223]
• Theory of final ends; aims as directive means; ends as justifying means; meaning well as an aim; wishes and aims.
• Section VII: The Nature of Principles [238]
• Desire for certainty; morals and probabilities; importance of generalizations.
• Section VIII: Desire and Intelligence [248]
• Object and consequence of desire; desire and quiescence; self-deception in desire; desire needs intelligence; nature of idealism; living in the ideal.
• Section IX: The Present and Future [265]
• Subordination of activity to result; control of future; production and consummation; idealism and distant goals.

PART FOUR