The Shape of"Natural Normativity":On Dewey's Ethical Naturalism
While avoiding reductionist naturalism in the relationship between nature and norms,there is an urgent need to provide a rational explanation for the natural origin of norms.Dewey rejects any reductionist approach to understanding ethics in the light of science and its dichotomies of nature and ethics,practice and theory.This leads Dewey to argue for continuity between nature and norm.Dewey's own strategy is to establish an intermediary link between the natural intentionality that individuals possess when they are engaged with the external world and the social normativity that individuals possess when they are in the company of others.It is this link that is referred to as natural normativity.Dewey's position implies that the human process of active-ly transforming nature is at once a process of knowing the external world and a process of shaping the ethical world.This insight is a novel and illuminating framework for conceptualizing the relationship between nature and norms.
John Deweyethical naturalismnatural intentionalitynatural normativitysocial normativity
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