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But it is hardly the kind of liberty contemplated by the authors of the individualistic doctrine.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “But it is hardly the kind of liberty contemplated by the authors of the individualistic doctrine.”
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Dewey argues that the liberty experienced in modern politics differs from the individualistic ideals of earlier thinkers.
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What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.
Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.
There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.