John Dewey · Philosophy
Dewey’s program for philosophy itself: to abandon the ‘spectator’ quest for certain knowledge of an ultimate reality and become instead a method of intelligence for clarifying and resolving the real conflicts of human life.
You learned that Dewey wanted philosophy to give up the ‘spectator theory of knowledge’ and the quest for certainty, to recognize that its real origin lies in social and moral conflicts, and to become a method of intelligence for clarifying and resolving ‘the problems of men.’ Explain this reco…
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