SCA-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dialectic
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Those indirectly and seriously affected for good or for evil form a group distinctive enough to require recognition and a name. Then and in so far, association adds to itself political organisation, and something which may government comes into being: the public is a political state (35) Moves from the public, to the state. Publics make themselves effective through their ability to gain the capacity of representation within the body of the government. The public and the state/government: the conceptual priority of the public over the state in dewey"s theory: there is no sense in asking how individuals come to be associated. They exist and operate in association. : associated individuals or publics form governments when they establish a body of. 3. officials to represent them: the public is organized in and through those officers who act in behalf of its interests.