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Just as behavior is not anti-social or non-social because privately undertaken, it is not necessarily socially valuable because carried on in the name of the public by public agents.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “Just as behavior is not anti-social or non-social because privately undertaken, it is not necessarily socially valuable…”
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Dewey argues that actions taken in the name of the public are not inherently valuable just because they are public.
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