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In describing what is common in human and other animal junctions and consolidations we fail to touch what is distinctively human in human associations.
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John Dewey
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Dewey argues that while there are similarities in how humans and animals form groups, there are unique aspects of human associations that need to be acknowledged.
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What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.
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Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.