John Dewey: “Hence the idea that men are moved by an intelligent and calculated…”

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Hence the idea that men are moved by an intelligent and calculated regard for their own good is pure mythology.

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John Dewey

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Dewey critiques the notion that human behavior is solely driven by rational self-interest.

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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

John Dewey: “Hence the idea that men are moved by an intelligent and calculated regard for their own good is pure mythology.”