ABSTRACT
Section VIII.a: Temporal quality It was Dewey’s aim not only to resist the autonomy of factual discourse by insisting on the importance of the practical context in which it is of necessity situated, but also to resist the elevation of purely theoretical activity to the status of an end in itself, Thus we saw in Section VII.b how Dewey urged us to keep before our minds the implications of both the methods and the results of natural scientific activity for the possibilities of social control. In the remainder of the chapter we considered assumptions about value and human motivation, which lead to the beliefs that values are not susceptible to objective methods of inquiry, and that to allow natural scientific inquiry to be influenced by our interests in social control will result in its corruption.
