From Human Nature and Conduct (1922)

Volume 14 of Middle Works of John Dewey, 18991924, series provides an authoritative edition of Dewey s Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.Human Nature and Conduct evolved 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 Conduct sets forth Dewey s view…