In determining consequences, they institute publics with different interests, which exact different types of political behavior to care for them.
John Dewey: “In determining consequences, they institute publics with different interests, which exact different types of political…”
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Dewey discusses how different public interests arise from varying consequences of social behavior.
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There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.
What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.
But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.
Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…