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On James And Dewey 's Philosophical View

Posted on:2014-05-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330452954207Subject:Foreign philosophy
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James and Dewey are two representative of pragmatism, basic connotation oftheir thoughts can best embody the pragmatism, pragmatism of James and Dewey is amaster of pragmatism philosophy is based; they view of philosophy and world view,analysis of their philosophy, to better understand their pragmatism and what theywant answer. They affect the philosophical view and the significance of the researchon their theory is a recognition and evaluation, more can be used for reference for usto think and study philosophy, has important significance on these issues so.Philosophical view problem for us to study James and Dewey’s thought providesa new angle of view; three found in natural science has brought science revolution,also bring the ideas, let people with new vision and perspective to re-examine theworld and life; James and Dewey each knowledge background an important source ofand they look at the world, understand the point of view of philosophy, deeply affecttheir view of philosophy. They think that philosophy is not for the purpose of theultimate pursuit of world origin, philosophy should return to earth, researchexperience world problems; therefore, they see it, experience, knowledge, truth etcand traditional philosophy have many differences, it is no longer a philosophicalattention central point, experience has become the focus of their concern they thinkthat, knowledge comes from experience, understanding of the purpose is not to seekthe ultimate knowledge, but to guide people to improve the experience of life; on theproblem of the truth, the truth is not the objective reaction to things reflected, thetruth is a related meaning and value, rather than a matter of fact, the standard of truthlies in experience to the living meaning.From the point of view of philosophy, they created the theory of pragmatismwith a clear standpoint and the humanism and scientism attitude of color; and as ashift of modern western philosophy schools of philosophy, provides the path forreference and thinking angle of philosophy development later, also forpostmodernism provides reference, studies and philosophy in philosophy itself andthe time of our lives are closely related, for our personal philosophy of learning and thinking of life has important inspiration and reference, their research is of greatimportance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Philosophical view, experience, true, meaning
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