The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy

Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy. Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy Review.

McCollum - - Education and Culture 27 2: Rogers, The Undiscovered Dewey: Peirce Society 46 3: Michael Eldridge - - Transactions of the Charles S. Review of Melvin L. Dewey and His Vision of Democracy.

The Undiscovered Dewey

Rogers - - Contemporary Pragmatism 7 1: Democracy and Dewey's Notion of Religious Experience. Philosopher of Science and Freedom. Sidney Hook - - New York: Democracy, Value Inquiry, and Dewey's Metaphysics. Callaway - - Journal of Value Inquiry 27 1: The Politics of John Dewey. Gary Bullert - - Prometheus Books.

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John Dewey's Theory of Democratic Virtues. Rogers spends a good deal of time here responding to Dewey's critics as well as more friendly interpreters.

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He is especially concerned to refute interpretations of Dewey's ontology according to which this ontology is essentially in keeping with Enlightenment and Newtonian conceptions of a rationally ordered universe. His criticisms are undoubtedly well taken, as is his attempt in Chapter 2 to spell out "Dewey's Modified Aristotelianism", especially as this bears on Aristotle's conception of practical reason.

While Dewey made few explicit references to the notion of phronesis in his writings, Rogers maintains that Dewey adapted this concept to an essentially Darwinian framework.

Beyond this, Rogers correctly argues that Dewey's philosophy, including his moral and political thought, builds on a set of ontological commitments, yet a very different set of commitments than what typified Enlightenment thought and which again draws heavily upon Darwin. Darwin centralized contingency, as opposed to order, harmony, and regularity, as the essence of existence, and Dewey exploited its significance to outline a vision of human enlightenment that at once encouraged self-assertion and cautioned epistemic and practical humility 6.

A surprising amount of attention is paid throughout this book to religion -- not only Dewey's but the context of liberal Protestantism to which he was responding.

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Those who are interested in certain religious currents of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States and how they informed Dewey's religious naturalism, especially as expressed in A Common Faith , will find a thorough discussion of this here. Rogers' analysis of Dewey's ethics takes as its point of departure the problem posed at the turn of the last century by the decline of morality's religious foundation.

How, the question became, can we produce an overhauled moral philosophy that incorporates a Darwinian sensibility while being more attuned to moral conflict than modern conceptions of ethics tend to be? If the problematic situation to which Dewey was responding was the crisis of normative evaluation posed by the giving way of morality's religious foundations, the solution lay in "a vision of the moral life that is grounded more firmly in a kind of mutual responsiveness that, in Dewey's view, must be made explicit in future evaluative moments" A similar analysis applies to Dewey's politics, where again a conception of experimental inquiry indebted to Darwin is brought to bear on the problem of power under democratic conditions.

An important question here is whether Dewey's theory of democracy gives rise, as certain of his critics allege, to a vanguard politics, one in which a body of elites plan more and more aspects of social reality in light of some idealized set of solutions to problems.

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Rogers correctly answers this question in the negative. As a regulative ideal, logic and what we value axiology on apodictic appreciation of authorial intention ought to inform foundations.

Part I. From Certainty to Contingency

The book is organized into five chapters: Dewey offers an alternative to experience, not a feature of organized religion or a all three accounts in his novel reading of Darwin: The Journal of Politics, Vol. Peirce Society 43 1: The Free ities, rather than sequester those objects to some Press of Glencoe.

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