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Moralities of the past were deficient in that they were based on ordinary rules rather than on a scientific understanding of human nature as formed within a social environment.
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Human nature is continuous with the rest of nature ;
ethics is thus allied with physics and biology,and with sociology,law,and economics.
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Vices and virtues are habits developed during the interaction of the human organism and the social environment.
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Morals are ways of action invented to meet specific situations,
reactions to them become habits and acquire prescriptive character.
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Education must enable the organism to modify its behavior in the face of novelty.
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Reflection upon conduct has as its objective the satisfying resolution of a problem arising from the incompatability of various impulses.
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