Dewey, J: The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 5, 1899-19

This fifth volume of the Middle Works contains "Ethics "by John Dewey and his former colleague at the University of Michigan, James H. Tufts, which appeared as one of the last in the Holt American Science series of textbooks. Within some six months after publication, "Ethics "was adopted as a textbook by thirty colleges. The book continued to be extremely popular and widely used, and was reprinted twenty-five times before both authors completely revised their respective parts for the new 1932 edition.Up to the time "Ethics "was published, Dewey s approach to ethics was known primarily from two short publications that were developed for use by his classes at the University of Michigan: "Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics "(1891) and "The Study of Ethics: A Syllabus "(1894). Charles Stevenson notes in his Introduction to the present edition that "Ethics "afforded Dewey an opportunity to preserve and enrich the content of those earlier works and at the same time to expound his position in a more systematic manner."