The philosophy of John Dewey ; La philosophie de John Dewey : repères
In: hal-01286679;; (2016)
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International audience ; This book aims at giving Dewey his own medicine in order to get a comprehensive insight of his thought. To explain his whole philosophy, it does not start with a specific doctrine such as his theory of experience, his theory of inquiry or his theory of value. Instead, it begins by asking what problem Dewey intended to solve and then reads all his various theories as means, aspects or phases of the resolution of this problem. In its pre-philosophical terms, the central “problem of men” is a kind of crisis of civilization, conflicted between pre-modern and modern tendencies so that the course of humanity is divided about where to go to and what to do. Dewey’s philosophical diagnosis consists in identifying this cultural problem with a discrepancy between what has rightful authority in man’s beliefs about the world he lives in, i.e. scientific inquiry, and what has actual authority in his moral values and in the direction of his conduct (anything but inquiry). Dewey’s proposition to unify civilization and to give humanity a shared direction by integrating cognitive and moral beliefs is to be found in his attempt to extend scientific inquiry into an experimental method of moral reflection. These diagnosis and prognosis are backed up by a genealogical survey of modernity that situates the origin of the dualism between science and morals in the tremendous effect the modern scientific revolution had in dissolving the Greek and medieval integrated outlook. In such an outlook, the identification of the supreme Good (moral philosophy) was indeed grounded in the certain knowledge (epistemology) of ultimate reality (ontology), a kind of knowledge that scientific inquiry has rendered obsolete not only in its content but also in its method. To achieve modernity by extending the modern scientific revolution to morals (understood in a comprehensive sense designating whatever is taken to have rightful authority in the direction of conduct) is thus Dewey’s main proposition to solve what he sees as the ...
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The philosophy of John Dewey ; La philosophie de John Dewey : repères
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Madelrieux, Stéphane ; Institut de recherches philosophiques de Lyon (IRPhiL) ; Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML) ; Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon |
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Quelle: | hal-01286679;; (2016) |
Veröffentlichung: | HAL CCSD ; Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2016 |
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ISBN: | 978-2-7116-2646-5 (print) ; 2-7116-2646-6 (print) |
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