Indeed every serious political dispute turns upon the question whether a given political act is socially beneficial or harmful.
John Dewey: “Indeed every serious political dispute turns upon the question whether a given political act is socially beneficial or…”
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Dewey emphasizes the importance of evaluating political actions based on their social consequences.
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Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.