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John Dewey: “Equality then becomes a creed of mechanical identity which is false to facts and impossible of realization.”

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Equality then becomes a creed of mechanical identity which is false to facts and impossible of realization.
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John Dewey

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Dewey critiques the concept of equality as a flawed notion when it promotes mechanical uniformity.

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