%0 Journal Article
%T From [``Political Ethics''] to [``Social Philosophy'']: The Need for Social Theory
%+ Sociologie, philosophie et anthropologie politiques (SOPHIAPOL)
%A Renault, Emmanuel
%@ 0009-1774
%J Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
%I Indiana University Press
%V 53
%N 1
%P 90-106
%8 2017
%D 2017
%R 10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.53.1.06
%Z Humanities and Social SciencesJournal articles
%X The purpose of this article is to provide a generic account of John Dewey's project of social philosophy. Dewey began lecturing on social philosophy when he became aware that society cannot be considered as a social organism and that a philosophical approach to social problems should bring various social sciences into alignment. As a result, social philosophy should be grounded not only in a social psychology, but also in a social theory. This article also shows that Dewey's social philosophy consists in a theory of the method that is applied in The Public and its Problems, Individualism Old and New, and other books and articles. As a method of intelligent social criticism, social philosophy should therefore be considered as a genuine and decisive part of Dewey's mature philosophical endeavors.
%G English
%L hal-02173454
%U https://hal.parisnanterre.fr//hal-02173454
%~ SHS
%~ UNIV-PARIS10
%~ SOPHIAPOL
%~ UPN
%~ UNIV-PARIS-LUMIERES
%~ UNIV-PARIS-NANTERRE