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What I noticed about Dewey's two criteria for evaluating a society was that they did not seem to make it possible to always be able to say that one society is better than another. It might be easy to say that a society which has 10 interests which are spread across a broad range of fields and shares ideas with other societies all around the world is a better one (using Dewey's criteria at least) than a society which has only three common interests, all of which are in the field of scientific thought, and is completely cut of from other societies. However, it becomes more challenging for one to decide whether one society is better than another when one society has more common interests than another and the other has a fuller and freer interplay
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