Degeneration of Associated Life
Dewey's Naturalism about Social Criticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8903019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arvi Särkelä (0000-0001-7525-7685, corresponding author), Arvi Särkelä Arvi Särkelä |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-107 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-1774 • E-ISSN: 1558-9587 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.53.1.07 |
| OpenAlex | W2620292136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this article, I inquire into the “naturalistic” aspect of John Dewey’s China lectures on social philosophy and ask what his naturalism about social philosophy is. In the lectures and the notes, Dewey describes the subject-matter and the method of social philosophy in naturalistic terms: the object of social philosophy is conceived as “associated life” and its method is likened to the “art of medicine,” as the social philosopher is understood to be advancing “diagnoses” and “cures” for “social pathologies.” I next revisit Dewey’s naturalistic metaphysics in the hope of finding a clue for how to conceive of Dewey’s naturalistic conception of the social. Finally, I indicate how Dewey’s naturalism informs the very significance of the critical social philosophy advocated in the Lectures . His naturalistic social philosophy establishes an evaluative approach to social reality, which is not reducible to the normativity of moral or political justification, but is based immanently on the authority of “associated life” itself
Art · Criticism · Degeneration (medical · Epistemology · Literature · Naturalism · Pathology · Psychoanalysis · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |