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Intelligence of Morals by John Dewey

John Dewey, "Intelligence of Morals", Chapter 3 in The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays (1910), pp. 46-76. A public lecture, "Ethics", delivered at Columbia University in March, 1908, under the title of  in a series of lectures on " Science, Philosophy, and Art."
Go The utmost to be said in praise of Plato and Aristotle is not that they invented excellent moral theories, but that they rose to the opportunity which the spectacle of Greek life afforded. For Athens presented an all but complete microcosm for the study of the interaction of social organization and individual character.