Education for Democracy

Tiles, J. E.

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“…There will not be enough space here to connect all of the dots between these areas, Dewey's functional accounts of nature and experience, and the Greek notions of physis and empeiria. Fortunately, there is a raft of excellent scholarship regarding Dewey's philosophy of experience which supports my reading of his theory of inquiry as embedded in his ontology and theory of experience (Alexander, 1987;Boisvert, 1988;Eldridge, 1998;Tiles, 1990;Hickman, 2001). Thus, I will limit my remaining comments to those aspects of Greek organicism which pertain directly to transitions from immediate experience to knowledge acquisition, trusting that it will be obvious how those…”

Section: Organicism and The Development Of Dewey's Naturalismmentioning

confidence: 74%

Dewey and “the Greeks:” Inquiry and the Organic Spirit of Greek Philosophy

Kirby¹

Dewey and the Ancients : Essays on Hellenic and Hellenistic Themes in the Philosophy of John Dewey

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More than one critic … has remarked that most of [his] significant commentary on ancient philosophy occurs within argument for some special phase of his own theory of inquiry. The indication … is that, in Dewey's eyes, the study of Greek philosophy should not be thought of primarily as the occupation of a special academic task force, but as a continuing reinterpretation that is of general importance within contemporary philosophy. (Anderson, 1967, p. 86) Those who have considered the connection between Dewey's theory of inquiry and Greek thought have mostly situated their remarks within larger points, regarding either teaching and learning (Garrison, 1997; Johnston, 2006b; Cahn, 2007) or aesthetics and craft (Alexander, 1987; Hickman, 1990). The fact that this area remains somewhat underexplored could be chalked up to several factors: 1) Dewey was often quite critical of the classical tradition, particularly when it came to theories of knowledge; 2) Dewey was not a trained classicist, with little working knowledge of ancient Greek, and was self-admittedly not a historian of philosophy; and 3) whenever Dewey did turn positive attention toward ancient thought, he tended to speak in generalities, referring most often to "the Greeks" rather than any particular Greek thinker. In spite of this, there remain many compelling reasons to place Dewey's views on inquiry in meaningful dialogue with the classical tradition. I will suggest that the most compelling of all is the link between Dewey's view of inquiry and his particular brand of naturalism, which found its fullest expression late

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Section: Organicism and The Development Of Dewey's Naturalismmentioning

confidence: 74%