
Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Perplexed? Is It Raining?
I think it comes naturally that you are perplexed. The education and the thing that you have to train and develop is the right disposition and openness towards being perplexed. It reveals our own natural capacity to just make sense of the world. We may fancy this is not enough for us, and that we seek not merely an opinion, but a true opinion. But put this fancy the test in it proves groundless,. as soon as a firm belief is reached, and we are entirely satis whether belief is true or false. I men that is the origin of the desire for thinking.
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