John Dewey: “Thus in the sense in which the authors of the doctrine employed the…”

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Thus in the sense in which the authors of the doctrine employed the word “artificial,” these things were intensely and cumulatively artificial.

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John Dewey

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Dewey argues that many aspects of modern life are artificially constructed through social processes.

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For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.

John Dewey: “Thus in the sense in which the authors of the doctrine employed the word “artificial,” these things were intensely and…”