Criticism Of The British Modern Empiricism And Beyond

Experience is one of the important concepts of John Dewey, which directly related to the core of his philosophy. Modern English empiricists take experience and natural as two opposed conceptions. On this basis, the knowledge and experience is seen as a purely mental event, it embodies a "self" and the social life of people opposed to the theoretical assumptions. Dewey firmly objects this idea. In accordance with Dewey's view, the experience not only a "knowledge" of the event, its meaning is far more understanding of people over a wide range of activities, which includes all of the "life" and "history." Dewey, the "experience" and "life" is the same sense as the term and experience means life activity, and carrying out life activities the first condition is its integration with the environment. Life and the environment is to maintain each other, interdependent relationship is a philosophy of John Dewey on the basis of the existence. Dewey hoped that as a basis for digestion of traditional philosophy of "experience" and "natural" tension and antagonism between. Therefore, we only proceed from life itself, to understand the concept of John Dewey is how to transcend the experience of the British Modern Theory.In this paper, concept analysis, comparison and other methods, from experience, the concept of the historical development of starting first on the experience of the concept of a general understanding; a description of Dewey is based on what the starting point to go on the philosophy to be transformed, transformed the moral concepts, such as it is and what kind of situation changes; then shows the main content of the concept of John Dewey, including experience with nature, knowledge, art and consciousness. The experience transformed the concept and truth, the relationship between democracy. Also compare what are the difference between the experience of John Dewey and the Modern View of the experience of the British empiricism; finally the concept of John Dewey's achievements and shortcomingsIn this paper, based on previous studies, trying to explain the essence of the concept of John Dewey, in order to reduce misunderstanding of the concept of John Dewey, the main content is divided into five parts:Chapter One:Introduction, including background issues, status and backgroundChapter Two:the experience highlighted the historical evolution of the concept, focusing on explaining the experience of the British empiricism of modern concepts and the concept of John Dewey's experience. Then comparative analysis the modern British empiricism's defects and deficiencies.Chapter Three:Modern Philosophy from the crisis facing the start, again how we should view science and address the relationship between science and philosophy. Also describes how it is with Dewey is to transform the situation.Chapter Four:in-depth analysis of the meaning of the concept of John Dewey. Dewey's concept of the end of the experience of the experience and the nature of traditional dualism of opposition and rebuild the relationship between experience and nature; and re-established experience and nature, knowledge, consciousness, art, criticism of the relationship.Chapter Five:the new experience in Dewey's view of the experience with democracy, morality, truth relationship.Conclusion:John Dewey's theory of the concept of achievements and difficulties...