...an eternal goal and has to be forever struggled for and won anew. It does not automatically perpetuate itself and, unless it is continually rewon in new effort against new foes, it is lost.” – John Dewey, “Freedom.” (1937, LW 11: 247).
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...there are goods which are enhanced by being mutually communicated and participated in.... Communication, sharing, joint participation are the only actual ways of universalizing the moral law and end.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 197).
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– John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 194).
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covers all the ways in which by associating together men share their experiences, and build up common interests and aims; street gangs, schools for burglary, clans, social cliques, trades unions, joint-stock corporations, villages and international alliances.”
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...a particular man suffering from some particular disability aims to live healthily, and consequently health cannot mean for him exactly what it means for any other mortal.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 175).
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How to live healthily or justly is a matter which differs with every person. It varies with his past experience, his opportunities, his temperamental and acquired weaknesses and abilities. Not man in general but...
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...It has to be searched for. There are conflicting desires and alternative apparent goods. What is needed is to find the right course of action, the right good. Hence, inquiry is exacted.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 173).
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...alter them as for opportunities to assert them. They are tools. As in the case of all tools, their value resides not in themselves but in their capacity to work shown in the consequences of their use.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 163).
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The conventional statement that experience only tells us how men have thought or do think, while logic is concerned with norms, with how men should think, is ludicrously inept.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 157-158).
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...the observation and understanding of concrete social events and forces, can form ideals, that is aims, which shall not be either illusions or mere emotional compensations.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 154-155).
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...a certain kind of intelligently conducted doing; it ceases to be contemplative and becomes in a true sense practical.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 149).
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...communication makes him a sharer in the beliefs of those about him. These beliefs coming to him as so many facts form his mind; they furnish the centres about which his own personal expeditions and perceptions are ordered.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 132).
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...undergoes, suffers, the consequences of its own behavior. This close connection between doing and suffering or undergoing forms what we call experience.” – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12: 129).
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