Human Nature And Conduct John Dewey
Dewey, John. Chapter Four “Human Nature and Conduct”
How People Develop
In John Dewey’s fourth chapter, in “Human Nature and Conduct” he introduces the concept of how human “customs and habits” are formed. He develops an understanding of how growing styles influence how people develop and learn. As well Dewey looks into how habits continue to leave us in the same type of democracy. When put together it shows similar development with in social grouping. Dewey believes the idea that people have “custom, or widespread uniformities of habit, exist because individuals face the same situation and react in like fashion.”(43) Within the first paragraph of this chapter Dewey informs that many of today’s habits are formed due to social customs and collective ways. Many people start in the same process even dating back to birth. Each infant born is subject from, the first breath they draw is to cry and demand the attention of others (43). As infants continue to grow and develop a speaking pattern, it will be like the one within their social group. But the idea that because of “how the world works” people from two different worlds can have similar point of views even if the did not grow up the exact same way as the other. Another way Dewey says people find groups is because people have a “common mind, common ways of feeling and believing and purpose.”(45) …show more content…
Democracy is bound to be perverted in realization. (52) When applying habit to democracy its show a different type of view point. Inside the history of “past custom is habit any more conservative than it is progressive.”(48) Habit is a way of conducting with knowledge of past experience. This way of democracy is quite upside down. This part of essay is where I too was confused. Overall habits operate through mechanisms where people must learn and then take this information and processes it in there own
How People Develop
In John Dewey’s fourth chapter, in “Human Nature and Conduct” he introduces the concept of how human “customs and habits” are formed. He develops an understanding of how growing styles influence how people develop and learn. As well Dewey looks into how habits continue to leave us in the same type of democracy. When put together it shows similar development with in social grouping. Dewey believes the idea that people have “custom, or widespread uniformities of habit, exist because individuals face the same situation and react in like fashion.”(43) Within the first paragraph of this chapter Dewey informs that many of today’s habits are formed due to social customs and collective ways. Many people start in the same process even dating back to birth. Each infant born is subject from, the first breath they draw is to cry and demand the attention of others (43). As infants continue to grow and develop a speaking pattern, it will be like the one within their social group. But the idea that because of “how the world works” people from two different worlds can have similar point of views even if the did not grow up the exact same way as the other. Another way Dewey says people find groups is because people have a “common mind, common ways of feeling and believing and purpose.”(45) …show more content…
Democracy is bound to be perverted in realization. (52) When applying habit to democracy its show a different type of view point. Inside the history of “past custom is habit any more conservative than it is progressive.”(48) Habit is a way of conducting with knowledge of past experience. This way of democracy is quite upside down. This part of essay is where I too was confused. Overall habits operate through mechanisms where people must learn and then take this information and processes it in there own