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Pragmatism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Americanness of Pragmatism

Dewey took the pragmatist philosophy into society rather emphatically with his involvement in roosevelt's new deal. From a left wing perspective, i that the relevance of a dewey's view to politics is this idea that really finding solutions to our problems is a communal effort. So we get away from the idea of the philosopher in the garret, and'm just reasoning a priori on their own. And so thereis a natural r sympathy here with ideas of democratic democracy and democratic participation in solving our problems through that collective endeavour. But however, the new deal itself, i think, from dewy's point of view, was an an inadequate move in that direction.

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