1. Minor Virtues: A Deweyan Approach
... to any tendency to feel, think, or act that develops from or is influenced by training or habituation. For Dewey, virtues are products of learning and active development, thus they are habits in the broad sense. But they are not habits in the narrow sense. If they were, then ... beings change profoundly over time as do the environments in which they operate. Thus in his account of the rational choice of acts, goals and life-plans, Dewey emphasizes the importance of recognizing the precariousness of meaningful self-sustaining projects and life plans. For this reason, he ... , trust, grat...
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