John Dewey: “The regulations and laws of the state are therefore misconceived when…”

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The regulations and laws of the state are therefore misconceived when they are viewed as commands.

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John Dewey

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Dewey critiques the misconception of laws as mere commands from the state.

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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.

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

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

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

John Dewey: “The regulations and laws of the state are therefore misconceived when they are viewed as commands.”