John Dewey, a great ethical humanist thinker, wrote: “Democracy is a way of personal life controlled . . . by faith in the capacity of human beings for intelligent judgment and action if proper conditions are furnished . . . [conditions] of [free inquiry] of consultation, of conference, of persuasion, of discussion . . . which in the long run is self-corrective.” Present day politics of demagoguery and paranoia appear to contradict Dewey’s belief in democracy. But the potential that Dewey sees in democracy can and must be realized.
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