John Dewey: “It enables individual members to count with reasonable certainty upon…”

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It enables individual members to count with reasonable certainty upon what others will do, and thus facilitates mutually helpful coöperations.

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John Dewey

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Dewey states that a good state fosters cooperation among individuals by ensuring predictability in actions.

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The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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.

John Dewey: “It enables individual members to count with reasonable certainty upon what others will do, and thus facilitates mutually…”