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Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

Dewey, John, 1859-1952; Bode, Boyd Henry, 1873-1953; Brown, Harold Chapman, 1879-1943; Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974; Mead, George H.; Moore, Addison Webster, 1866-1930; Stuart, Henry Waldgrave, 1870-1951; Tufts, James Hayden, 1862-1942· 2 chapters· 26,969 words

judge a proposed act we doubtless try to discover what it will mean, that is, we look at consequences. But these consequences are looked upon as giving us the meaning of the present act and we do not on this account subordinate the present act to these consequences. Especially...

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1. act I think we might still speak of it as right or wrong. In trying to

judge a proposed act we doubtless try to discover what it will mean, that is, we look at consequences. But these consequences are looked upon as giving us the meaning of the pre...

2. Chapter IV, on "The Creative Factor in Production") seem to have a close

[53] It may be worth while to glance here for the sake of illustration at an ethical view of preference parallel with the economic logic above contested. "The act which is right...