One of the obstructions in the path is the seemingly engrained notion that the first and the last problem which must be solved is the relation of the individual and the social:--or that the outstanding question is to determine the relative merits of individualism and collective or of some compromise between them.
Dewey critiques the oversimplified dichotomy between individualism and collectivism in social theory.
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