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Dewey’s Social Philosophy Alsobytheauthor JohnR.Shook,Dewey’sEmpiricalTheoryofKnowledgeandReality,2000. JohnR.Shook,editor,PragmaticNaturalismandRealism,2003. John R. Shook, co-editor with Joseph Margolis, A Companion to Pragmatism, 2006. JohnR.Shook,co-editorwithHughMcDonald,F.C.S.SchilleronPragmatism andHumanism:SelectedWritings,1891–1939,2008. JohnR.Shook,co-editorwithPaulKurtz,TheFutureofNaturalism.Prometheus Books,2009. JohnR.Shook,co-authorwithJamesA.Good,JohnDewey’sPhilosophyofSpirit, withDewey’s1897lecturesonHegel,2010. John R. Shook, co-editor with Paul Kurtz, Dewey’s Enduring Impact: Essays on America’sPhilosopher,2011. JohnR.Shook,editor,TheEssentialWilliamJames,2011. John R. Shook, co-editor with Tibor Solymosi, Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy, andPragmatism:BrainsatWorkwiththeWorld,2014. John R. Shook, co-editor with Tibor Solymosi, Pragmatist Neurophilosophy: AmericanPhilosophyandtheBrain,2014. Dewey’s Social Philosophy Democracy as Education JohnR.Shook dewey’ssocialphilosophy Copyright©JohnR.Shook,2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-46734-8 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,Europeandtherestofthe World,thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishers Limited,registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-50001-7 ISBN 978-1-137-45478-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137454782 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Shook,JohnR. Dewey’ssocialphilosophy:democracyaseducation/JohnR.Shook. pages cm Includesindex. ISBN 978-1-349-50001-7 1. Dewey,John,1859–1952—Politicalandsocialviews. 2. Education—Philosophy. 3. Democracyandeducation. I. Title. LB875.D5S472014 370.1—dc23 2014016787 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:October2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 WhatareDemocracyandEducationfor? 1 2 Pragmatism,Learning,andDemocracy 29 3 TheEthicalJustificationforDemocracy 55 4 EqualOpportunity,Education,andDemocracy 87 5 MoralEducation,Justice,andPunishment 113 6 Democracy,Religion,andEthicalProgress 139 Notes 159 Index 181 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Portionsofpreviouslypublishedessaysandpaperpresentations are contained in this book’s chapters, in revised and extended form.Theoriginalessaysandpapersare: “Der philosophische Hintergrund von Deweys pädagogische Credo.” (The Philosophical Context of Dewey’s Pedagogical Creed). Translated by Helmut Schreier. In Rekonstruktion der Schule: Das pädagogische credo des John Dewey und die heutige Erziehungspraxis, ed. Helmut Schreier (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2001),pp.23–55. “Dewey’s Vision of Equal Opportunity for Education in a Democracy,” In William Lawson and Donald Koch, eds., Pragmatism and the Problem of Race (Bloomington: Indiana UniversityPress,2004),pp.48–72. “Dewey’s Ethical Justification for Public Deliberation Democracy.”EducationandCulture 29,1(Fall2013):3–26. “Dewey’s Rejection of Retributivism and His Moral- EducationTheoryofPunishment.”JournalofSocialPhilosophy 35,1(Spring2004):66–78. “Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas,” In John Ryder and Emil Visnovsky, eds., Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Two, (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi,2004),pp.31–41. “Entrepreneurship and Values in a Democratic and Prag- matic Economics.” Journal of Economic Methodology 10, 2 (June2003):181–190. viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “Dewey’s Naturalized Philosophy of Spirit and Religion.” InJohnR.ShookandJamesA.Good,eds.,JohnDewey’sPhilos- ophy of Spirit, with Dewey’s 1897 Lectures on Hegel (New York: FordhamUniversityPress,2010),pp.3–55. “Pragmatism Caught between Church and State.” Paper read at the Society for the Advancement of American Phi- losophy meeting with the Eastern Division meeting of the AmericanPhilosophicalAssociation,Boston,December2004. “Dewey’s Hegelianism and His Repair of the Reli- gious/SecularDivide.”PaperreadattheAmericanAcademyof Religion, with the Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought group meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November2004. C h a p t e r 1 What are Democracy and Education for? John Dewey’s integration of education and democracy encompasses,immediatelyorremotely,notjusthissocialand political principles, but also his commitments across psychol- ogy, epistemology, ontology, axiology, ethics, and legal theory. Fully comprehending Dewey’s educational theory, including how he defends it and how he would put it into practice, is to fairlyunderstandhisentirephilosophy.Hedidassertthat“Phi- losophy is the theory of education as a deliberately conducted enterprise.”1 Dewey is known for his education theories promoting democracy, but what is democracy for? His philosophy advanced democracy as education itself, to reach ever-higher levels of social intelligence. Praising the community and pro- moting rights are Deweyan priorities, yet they depend on the core of Dewey’s visionary philosophy, which seeks everyone’s goodinasociallifethatisintelligentlylived. This book explains Dewey’s political vision for democracy as a form of deliberative polyarchy based on ethical princi- ples.Thiskindofdemocracyamountstoacommunalexercise in experimental civic education. This ethical project, suc- cessfully pervading all of democratic society and leaving no nondemocratic elements untouched, must be revolutionarily comprehensive.Maintainingthecivilpeace,aproductiveecon- omy, a participatory citizenry, an effective penal system, and J.R. Shook, Dewey’s Social Philosophy © John R. Shook 2014
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