Contextualizing Dewey’s 1932 Ethics

Populist Protests and the Dynamic Zero-COVID Policy: (Re)emerging Pragmatic Populism in China

“…During the May Fourth Movement, Dewey gave 16 public lectures on ‘social philosophy and political philosophy’ at Peking University, and is considered as a systematic exposition of experimentalist political philosophy (Peng, 2020). Interestingly, Dewey’s philosophy in dialogue with Laclau’s ideas about populism has been explored in further discourses that explore the potential for a populist approach to education that emphasizes the importance of pragmatic populism, which adheres to experiential learning and democratic participation (Mårdh & Tryggvason, 2017; Pappas, 2008; Sun, 2018; Talisse, 2011).…”

Toward Humanistic Business Ethics

“…As Pappas (2008) argues, the normative model asks scholars to adopt a “theoretical, detached, external standpoint on morality,” thereby neglecting the importance of the context. This, he claims, produces what Dewey called the “Philosophical Fallacy”: “To abstract one factor or feature of situations which are experienced as morally problematic, and then to make that factor supreme or exclusive to morality is to commit what Dewey called the philosophical fallacy” (Pappas, 2008, p. 33). If business ethicists remain pure philosophers, as Hartman (2010) notes, scholarship in business ethics will not be useful to managers.…”

“…Pierce, James, and Dewey, the founders of Pragmatism, believed that good thinking was rooted in experience. Dewey believed that theory cannot be divorced from practice as “theory arises from, is informed by, and affects practice” (Pappas, 2008, p. 60). We always live in situations “to the last inch.” Therefore, the pragmatist approach suggests taking “what is local, unique, qualitative and ineffable as starting point and as the basis of what is universal and cognitive” (Pappas, 2008, p. 8).…”

“…Dewey believed that theory cannot be divorced from practice as “theory arises from, is informed by, and affects practice” (Pappas, 2008, p. 60). We always live in situations “to the last inch.” Therefore, the pragmatist approach suggests taking “what is local, unique, qualitative and ineffable as starting point and as the basis of what is universal and cognitive” (Pappas, 2008, p. 8). In this perspective, HBE asks business ethics scholars to take into consideration the historical development of cultures and socioeconomic systems, and focus research on solving problems that come from real business practice.…”

The "Non-Naturalistic Fallacy" in Lao-Zhuang Daoism

“…Philosophers often denied the practical experiential context of their own investigations and took the products of their inquiries to replace experience as it is lived. 6 Experience, for Dewey, is not merely cognitive and theoretical in content. The non-cognitive dimensions of experience help to constitute the meaning of any foregrounded aspects of experience.…”