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THE PUBLIC
AND ITS PROBLEMS
ВУ
ЈОНУ DEWEY
ALAN SWALLOW
DENVER
COPYRIGHT, 1927,
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Copyright renewed, 1954, by Mrs. John Dewey
PRINTED IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PREFATORY NOTE
This volume is the result of lectures delivered during the month of
January, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, upon the Larwill
Foundation of Kenyon College, Ohio. In acknowledging the many courtesies received, I wish to express also my appreciation of the toleration shown by the authorities of the College to delay in publication. The intervening period has permitted a full revision and expansion of the lectures as originally delivered. This fact will account for an occasional reference to books published in the interval.
J. D.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
I. Sŧĵǡŕƒ żLjǡ ǵƒŧ PǼœƯƗŕ
3
Divergence of facts and theoretical interpretations
concerning the nature of the state, 3. Practical import of
theories, 5. Theories in terms of causal origin, 9. Theory
in terms of perceived consequences, 12. Distinction of
private and public substituted for that of individual and
social, 13. The influence of association, 22. Plurality of
associations, 26. Criterion of the public, 27. Function of
the state, 28. The state as an experimental problem, 32.
Summary, 34.
II. DƗǪŕLj΄ŧǡΏ Ljż ǵƒŧ Sǵĵǵŧ
37
Public
and
state,
38.
Geographical
extent,
39.
Multiplicity of states, 43. Spread of consequences, 47.
Law is not command, 53. Law and reasonableness, 55.
The public and long-established habits of action, 57. Fear
of the new, 59. Irreparable consequences, 62. Variation
of state-functions according to circumstances of time and
place, 65. State and government, 66. State and society,
69. The pluralistic theory, 73.
III. Tƒŧ DŧƽLjŕǡĵǵƗŕ Sǵĵǵŧ
75
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