John Dewey —— His Thought and Influence

----- 约翰杜威

ISBN: 9781330571507 出版年:2016 页码:255 John Edward Blewett Forgotten Books

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Any valid appraisal and criticism Of a man's thought, however, must well up from intellectual charity (sympathy, if you will) and not from either resentment fed by hearsay, or at best, superficial study, nor from partisanship. NO true understanding of a man's thought can be had unless we learn by critical and historical study to see how he came to put his questions in the way he did and give the answers he gave to them. You need to go on and see how far a man's theory will really take you, and how much truth can be got out Of it, and just where and Why it breaks down.

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Ahmad Jazayeri

The book is very poorly reproduced and not worth even $1. I have returned it. Half the pages on the right side of the book are missing the beginning words or even more. Someone had read the book with a very sloppy underlines. The book should not be in the market. I actually bought the book because of the last article by Robert Pollock "Process and Experience" which I read to be a major article on understanding Dewey's thought. The book was produced by Fordham University which is a Catholic university and most of the authors are either SJ, Sister, or CP all practicing catholic preachers and it shows. The Pollock article is overrated and I was unable to read many of the pages because of the reproduction defect. Nevertheless, It has a very general overview with rather unnecessary references to Christianity. The author claims that if Dewey had a better understanding of traditions of Christian thought he would have understood that his action-based views are basically not new but a continuation of Christian thought. This claim is nowhere demonstrated in the article. In fact if anything, Dewey thought is fundamentally a continuation of Aristotle as opposed to Plato who still dominates and dominated Christian thought.Dont buy the book. Read Dewey himself.

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