John Dewey: “Mature and better equipped beings are aware of the consequences of…”

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Mature and better equipped beings are aware of the consequences of their acts upon those of the young.

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John Dewey

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Dewey asserts that mature individuals recognize the impact of their actions on younger generations.

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There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

Wealth and security are the natural rewards of economic virtues.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

John Dewey: “Mature and better equipped beings are aware of the consequences of their acts upon those of the young.”