Notes
Notes 1. In the autobiographical essay, "From Absolutism to Experimentalism" (1930), Dewey speaks approvingly ofAuguste Comte's "idea ofa synthesis ofscience that should be a regulative method of an organized social life" (LW, 5=154). 2. Perhaps "definite and specific case:' 3. This addition is speculative, but Dewey does assert in "The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy" (1909) that "the conviction persists-though history shows it to be a hallucination-that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms ofthe alternatives that the questions themselves present" (MW, 4:14). Dewey's overall approach in these lectures is to change the question by developing a new account of inquiry. 4. Possibly "our mind." 5. Possibly "won completed experience:' 6. According to William James, the "psychologist's fallacy" is "the great snare of the psychologist ... the confusion ofhis own standpoint with that ofthe mental fact about which he is making his report." See Volume 1 of his Psychology (New York: Henry Holt, 1990), pp. 196-97. Dewey interprets this to mean that we, as outside psychologists, have a tendency to read into the early stages of a development that which can only be true of the later stages. We do this because we are more interested in the outcome than the process. See Dewey's 1898 "Lectures on Psychological Ethics;' LPPE, p. 25. 7. In Dewey's "Introduction to Philosophy: Syllabus of Course 5" (1892), the "syncrete " or "internal unity" is one ofthe subjective categories (EW, 3:223). 8. Dewey asserts in his 1892 "Introduction to Philosophy: Syllabus of Course 5": "There are three philosophic sciences, corresponding to three ways in which the individual , or organized action may be regarded. These are Logic, Aesthetic and Ethic" (EW, 3:230). The Syllabus concludes with the statement, "Ethic unites the two sides distinguished in logic and aesthetic. It deals with the practical situation; the organized action" (235). These are the only remarks on ethics in the Syllabus, and it is plausible that the remainder of this course is an attempt to develop them further. 9. This paragraph should be taken in conjunction with the assertion in §189 that a person who applies the concept ofjustice should first get "a mastery of the actual facts to discuss what the actual movement ofthese facts is:' 10. Presumably a reference to Plato and Aristotle in the paragraph above. But Dewey could have said "the universals." 11. The typescript is obscure here. 12. Apparently the reference is to Josiah Royce, The Spirit ofModern Philosophy (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892), mentioned previously in §95. 13. Apparently, the "reflex" refers to the activity of thinking about these conflicting views. In contemporary psychology, the so-called "reflex arc" refers to the activity of thought. Notes 99 14. Actually refers to "The Chaos in Modern Training" (1894), EW 4:106-18. 15. The concept ofan "objectified unity" apart from "a unity oflife" is puzzling at first. But see Dewey's rejection of the dualism of"the world" and "psychical activity" in §120 of these lectures. There is a discussion of the objectivity of the moral ideal in Dewey's 1900 "Lectures on the Logic ofEthics,"LE, pp. 63-67, which begins with the assertion that "it is obvious that the ideal cannot be considered objective if the object is identified with anything having an independent external existence ... in the metaphysical and moral make-up of things ..." (63). Further, "the ideal is not external to experience as a whole." Dewey's own conception ofobjectivity as worked out in these pages is related to control in the process of experience. So, then an "objectified unity" is a unity apart from experience , separated from human experience. For an early version of this view associated with Hegel, see "The Present Position ofLogical Theory" (1891), EW, 3:136-37. For a later version ofDewey's concept ofobjectivity, see his reply to Philip Blair Rice, in "Valuation Judgments and Immediate Quality:' and "Further as to Valuation as Judgment" (1943), LW, 15:63-83. 16. That is, the psychological and social sides ofexperience are two aspects ofthe same experience as it goes through these stages. 17. A parabola is a conic section, the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. An hyperbola is a curve formed by action ofa right circular cone when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the cone's side makes. 18. In the Political Ethics lecturesto follow, Dewey...
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