Dewey, Early Works v.4, “The study of Ethics,” p. 224—Every act (consciously performed) is a judgment of value…thus a man’s real (as distinct from his nominal or symbolic) theory of conduct is itself an act; it marks a practical and simply a theoretical attitude.
Dewey, Early Works v.4, “The study of Ethics,” p. 234—Ethical Postulate: “The conduct required truly to express an agent is, at the same time, the conduct required to maintain the situation in which he is placed; while, conversely, the conduct that truly meets the situation is that which furthers an agent.”
Dewey, Early Works v.4, “The study of Ethics,” p. 51—Fiat justitia, ruat coelum, will serve, if it means: Let the needed thing be done, though the heavens of my past, or fixed, or presupposed self fall.
Dewey, Early Works v.4, “The study of Ethics,” p. 51—It is not action for the self that is required…but action as the self.