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John Dewey: “Not only the state but society itself has been pulverized into an aggregate of unrelated wants and wills.”

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Not only the state but society itself has been pulverized into an aggregate of unrelated wants and wills.
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John Dewey

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Dewey argues that society has become fragmented into isolated wants and wills.

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