The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
Dewey critiques the reduction of individuals to isolated entities devoid of associations, emphasizing voluntary choice.
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