Human Nature and Conduct, 1922

Volume 14ofThe Middle Works of John Dewey, 18991924,series provides an authoritative edition of Dewey'sHuman Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Human Nature and Conductevolved from the West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University. The lectures were ex­tensively rewritten and expanded into one of Dewey's best-known works. As Murray G. Murphey says in his Introduction, "It was a work in which Dewey sought to make ex­plicit the social character of his psychology and philosophysomething which had long been evident but never so clearly spelled out." Subtitled "An Introduction to Social Psy­chology,"Human Nature and Conductsets forth Dewey's view that habits are social functions, and that social phenomena, such as habit and custom and scientific methods of inquiry are moral and natural. Dewey con­cludes, "Within the flickering inconsequen­tial acts of separate selves dwells a sense of the whole which claims and dignifies them. In its presence we put off mortality and live in the universal."Dewey, John is the author of 'Human Nature and Conduct, 1922', published 1988 under ISBN 9780809314379 and ISBN 0809314371.