ABSTRACT
This chapter is the familiar and respectable philosophical issue of freedom and responsibility. Now in the traditional relation of freedom and responsibility, freedom is the prior notion characterizing the agent in his action; responsibility is a consequence of freedom. In a sense, freedom becomes the end to be achieved through judgments of responsibility, but of course its nature is altered in such reinterpretation. Freedom is concretized in the rights and powers of action one gets in the community. The actual discussion of freedom and responsibility, when it comes, is in a significantly different place. It is not in discussing the place of the self in the moral life, but in "Social Organization and the Individual". The culmination of the exploration of freedom in the educational arena is in Democracy and Education. The treatment of freedom and responsibility in Human Nature and Conduct is toward seeing the operation of these concepts in the social and psychological concerns of people.
