John Dewey and Moral Imagination

by Steven Fesmire

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253215986
• ISBN13: 9780253215987
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher