Thus in Dewey's ethics, evaluation of activities and goals turns out to be reciprocal. ... I think that classification of Dewey's ethics as a kind of virtue theory is problematic for (at least) a couple of reasons. ... "(9) In the revised, 1932 Ethics, he asserts that "virtue resides in fundamental and thoroughgoing interest in approved objects... Wide sympathy, keen sensitiveness, persistence in the face of the disagreeable, balance of interests enabling us to undertake the work of analysis and decision intelligently are the distinctively moral traits - the virtues or moral excellen...

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