Henceforth moral and political individualism could appeal to “scientific” warrant for its tenets and employ a vocabulary made current by psychology:--although in fact the psychology appealed to as its scientific foundation was its own offspring.
Dewey critiques the scientific justification of moral and political individualism based on psychology.
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