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John Dewey
John Dewy was someone who lead a multifarious life. He is one subject that is known for many biographies that was showcasing his extraordinary body of work. Through all of his publications during the early to mid 1900's, he was someone who became very active in leading, supporting, and even founding a number of organizations.
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John Dewey: The Public and its Problems First Look
This book was one of his first treatment to the political matter. The one thing to remember with this is that he did talk more on politics that was earlier in his career before this time. This book is focusing on the philosophy is going to investigate the meaning of the democracy that goes into the twentieth century. Through all his original work, this was a response to the philosopher Walter Lippman was someone who also understood the context of the meaning behind this. -
The Public and Its Problems - Look into Society
Dewey focused on wanting to accept what most of the philosophers were looking at the different human societies that were from groups of animals. This was a focused attempt that was going to explain the human societies in the terms as what the animal instincts could have been. One thing to look at is going to be the humanity that is going to explain the more detail look into the society. -
The Public and Its Problems Focus On The Understanding
Dewey made the comment that “what most distinguishes human from animal is that humans are considerably better able to understand not only that their actions have consequences, but the full scope of those consequences” (Super Summary). With the human actions that are going to become private, this is only going to affect the parties that are being involved. However, sometimes there is going to be human actions that are going to have indirect consequences that are going to be unrelated. -
The Public and Its Problems Conclusion
When things were to become negative, there is going to be a public form that is going to be the way to deal with all of the externalities that are going to be for the sake of the common interest. When Dewey mentions that there is going to be effects that are going to be from many different things, this is going to be something that shows the flaws of the humanity itself. Through all the common things, there is going to be the uncommon that is going to be using the power that is from the benefit.