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Influential work by the great educator/philosopher maintains that the key to social psychology lies in an understanding of the many varieties of habit; individual mental activity is guided by subordinate factors of impulse and intelligence. His investigation focuses on three main areas of conduct: habit, impulse, and intelligence, with each factor receiving an incisive treatment.

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Introduction

(13)

Contempt for human nature

pathology of goodness

freedom

value of science

PART ONE THE PLACE OF HABIT IN CONDUCT

Habits As Social Functions

(10)

Habits as functions and arts

social complicity

subjective factor

Habits And Will

(19)

Active means

ideas of ends

means and ends

nature of character

Character and Conduct

(15)

Good will and consequences

virtues and natural goods

objective and subjective morals

Custom and Habit

(17)

Human psychology is social

habit as conservative

mind and body

Custom and Morality

(9)

Customs as standards

authority of standards

class conflicts

Habit and Social Psychology

(5)

Isolation of individuality

newer movements

PART TWO THE PLACE OF IMPULSE IN CONDUCT

Impulses and Change of Habit

(6)

Present interest in instincts

impulses as re-organizing

Plasticity of Impulse

(11)

Impulse and education

uprush of impulse

fixed codes

Changing Human Nature

106

(19)

Habits the inert factor

modification of impulses

war a social function

economic regimes as social products

nature of motives

Impulse and Conflict of Habits

125

(6)

Possibility of social betterment

conservatism

Classification of Instincts

131

(18)

False simplifications

``self-love''

will to power

acquisitive and Creative

No Separate Instincts

149

(20)

Uniqueness of acts

possibilities of operation

necessity of play and art

rebelliousness

Impulse and Thought

169

(3)

PART THREE THE PLACE OF INTELLIGENCE IN CONDUCT

Habit and Intelligence

172

(9)

Habits and intellect

mind, habit and impulse

The Psychology of Thinking

181

(8)

The trinity of intellect

conscience and its alleged separate subject-matter

The Nature of Deliberation

189

(10)

Deliberation as imaginative rehearsal

preference and choice

strife of reason and passion

nature of reason

Deliberation and Calculation

199

(11)

Error in utilitarian theory

place of the pleasant

hedonistic calculus

deliberation and prediction

The Uniqueness of Good

210

(13)

Fallacy of a single good

applied to utilitarianism

profit and personality

means and ends

The Nature of Aims

223

(15)

Theory of final ends

aims as directive means

ends as justifying means

meaning well as an aim

wishes and aims

The Nature of Principles

238

(10)

Desire for certainty

morals and probabilities

importance of

Generalizations

Desire and Intelligence

248

(17)

Object and consequence of desire

desire and quiescence

self-deception in desire

desire needs intelligence; nature of idealism; living in the Ideal

The Present and Future

265

(13)

Subordination of activity to result

control of future

production and consummation

idealism and distant goals

PART FOUR CONCLUSION

The Good of Activity

278

(17)

Better and worse

morality a process

evolution and progress

optimism

Epicureanism

making others happy

Morals Are Human

295

(8)

Humane morals

natural law and morals

place of science

What is Freedom?

303

(11)

Elements in freedom

capacity in action

novel possibilities

force of desire

Morality Is Social

314

(19)

Conscience and responsibility

social pressure and opportunity

exaggeration of blame

importance of social psychology

category of right

the community as religious symbol

Index

333

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