# Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

Author: Dewey, John, 1859-1952

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60422

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Outlines+of+a+Critical+Theory+of+Ethics+Dewey&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Although the following pages have taken shape in connection with class-room work, they are intended as an independent contribution to ethical science. It is commonly demanded of such a work that its readers shall have some prefatory hint of its sources and deviations. In accordance with this custom, I may state that for the backbone of the theory here presented--the conception of the will as the expression of ideas, and of social ideas; the notion of an objective ethical world realized in institutions which afford moral ideals, theatre and impetus to the individual; the notion of the moral life as growth in freedom, as the individual finds and conforms to the law of his social placing--fo...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I.--THE GOOD.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.--THE FORMATION AND GROWTH OF IDEALS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.--REALIZED MORALITY OR THE VIRTUES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.--THE IDEA OF OBLIGATION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.--THE MORAL STRUGGLE OR THE REALIZING OF IDEALS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/11/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.--_Realized Morality or the Virtues_ 227-233](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.--THE IDEA OF FREEDOM.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/7/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.--_The Good_ 13-138](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.--_The Idea of Obligation_ 139-158](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.--_The Moral Struggle or the Realizing of Ideals_ 211-227](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlines-of-a-critical-theory-of-ethics-60422/chapters/3/index.md)