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The Unique Interpretation Of Dewey's "Experience" Concept

Posted on:2012-11-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368496995Subject:Foreign philosophy
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If James explained the Pierre principle again which sleep deeply over 20 years and started a new advocated earlier, then Dewey's development of pragmatism played the decisive role, Dewey make pragmatism tight link with society and times, and keep the activity of pragmatism. Dewey's pragmatic philosophy is not only has a profound historical origin, but also has profound theoretical basis and enterprising theoretical vigor. How to better understand the relationship between Dewey's "experience" and pragmatism, this paper tries to show his natural's unique by described the system of experience's individuality and self consciousness, to tap the experience of, nature of, educational theory, democratic ideology of pragmatism as the core content; efforts to study the experience and the natural philosophy of John Dewey on the philosophy of the past experience of natural heritage and the development of new pragmatism; efforts to clarify the core of Dewey's pragmatism to experience the value of self-interpretation.In the first part of this thesis is based on the experience of the self of John Dewey, on the surface the book of "Experience and Nature" does not seem to talk about themselves, but Dewey said it is exactly the experience of self, in this book is to preserve 17,18 century English empiricism as the ideological premise of the traditional experience of mining experience to Dewey typical self, self identity, but it is the experience of self, self sensory experience that makes Dewey have a unique sex. This section, the author discussion of Dewey through the experience that the self is the idea of self consciousness , the natural flow of self-awareness, that is, we usually refer to the stream of consciousness, then by comparison with other prominent philosophers John Dewey and practical experience pragmatism of.The second part is the nature of Dewey's experience. Dewey started from the perspective of nature paper on the experience, he believes that experience not only with the people's daily lives, but also from the external life of people's understood and grasp. It is for people to grasp the experience in real life have a repeat of the widespread and relatively stable understanding of what form, with this awareness, only to master the knowledge of this experience. Dewey's philosophy in the traditional subject-object dichotomy of reflection and found the experience both modern theory of the object referred to, or Schopenhauer, Nietzsche said, are not subject to instructions of experience. This is the experience of the unity of subject and object is in contact with the natural world in which people accumulate knowledge through experience that people understand and transform the nature, nature also gives the new experience of human needs. Dewey, starting from the living world, and strive to experience and nature by demonstrating the continuity of the unity of life experience so that people understand the practicality of the final.The third part is about the experience of the education of John Dewey. Dewey attaches great importance to the role of education, that education is a necessity for society to continue. Experience in real life will bring us a series of changes, the results are good, there are bad, how to stabilize the value of useful and sustainable for human use can not wait to become a problem to be solved, education is to solve this problem most powerful and practical. Therefore, we can say that the continued transformation of education is experience, experience is the continuity of the evaluation criteria of education, experience, given the interaction of education to social characteristics.In the fourth part of the democratic experience of John Dewey. Although in the book "Experience and Nature", Dewey has no specific, too much description of their democratic ideas, but the concept of John Dewey described the experience, describing the individual and society (natural) relationship is shown when the thought of democracy affirmed. Who is both a social history, human existence is inseparable from the development of society, everyone plays a different role in society, people are not social bystander, but involved a member of the community in the democratic community everyone for the collective creation of their own value.
Keywords/Search Tags:Experience, Self Consciousness, Education, Democracy, Pragmatism, Stream of Consciousness
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