They may think they are clamoring for a purely personal liberty, but what they are doing is to bring into being a greater liberty to share in other associations, so that more of their individual potentialities will be released and their personal experience enriched.
Dewey suggests that the pursuit of personal liberty can lead to greater collective freedom and enriched experiences.
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There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.
For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.
In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.
Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.