Essai

L’enrichissement de l’éthique appliquée par la prise en compte de la conception des émotions de Dewey

Geneviève D. BernatchezNicolas Bernier

Although it has received little attention in contemporary literature compared to other prominent elements of his work, emotion is very important to the philosophical project of the American pragmatist John Dewey, not least because of the essential role it plays in experience. More than a century ago, Dewey developed a theory of emotion that he published in two seminal texts, and later he consolidated his most finished ideas in other works, such as Ethics, Human Nature and Conduct and Art as Experience. More recently, scholars have put forward...