John Dewey and moral imagination : pragmatism in ethics / Steven Fesmire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fesmire, Steven, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Pragmatism.

Imagination (Philosophy).

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While examining the important role of imagination in making moral judgments, John Dewey and Moral Imagination focuses new attention on the relationship between American pragmatism and ethics. Steven Fesmire takes up threads of Dewey's thought that have been largely unexplored and elaborates pragmatism's distinctive contribution to understandings of moral experience, inquiry, and judgment. Building on two Deweyan notions -- that moral character, belief, and reasoning are part of a social and historical

Contents:

Habit and character

The pragmatic turn

Pragmatism's reconstruction of reason

Imagination in pragmatist ethics

Dramatic rehearsal

The Deweyan ideal

The moral artist.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-160) and index.

ISBN:

0-253-11066-1

OCLC:

475947567