ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a description of the structural shift and focuses on the three areas of the good, obligation, and virtue, and how the initial supremacy of the good as the unitary root gave way to the three roots. It examines the salient points of the structural shift up to 08. The chapter also provides a discussion on three handles of structural shift. The first is obvious: In the Syllabus John Dewey offers a view of conduct and its nature that remains constant throughout his work. A second handle is found in Dewey's constant concern with the relation of the individual to his natural and social environment. A third handle is suggested by Dewey's remark in the Fries letter that the change from 08 to 32 was, on its pedagogic side, from couching the material too much in terms of theories in 08 to making the approach direct and criticisms of theory secondary in 32.
