ABSTRACT
John Dewey's view of the role of ethical categories is developed early, before 08. It did not require the expansion of ethics from the psychological view to the social view; it was enough that the ethical judgment was seen as an active expression of consciousness modifying the situation that called for judgment. Dewey's focus on relating good to the transformation of the problematic situation here becomes so total that it leads him into what is in effect a moral tirade. Value is in reality an abstract noun denoting not just one undefinable thing but the entire complex of valuable things. The conception of valuable things throws us back upon the attitude of individuals in choosing and pursuing. Clearly Dewey's interpretation of value is in term of active reflective choice that refashions or creates outcomes in human demands, desires, satisfactions, enjoyments, and so on.
