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Gregory Pappas – Dewey’s Ethics – Democracy as Experience [Part I]
“Just as he objected to the ‘museum conception of art’ that isolates the arts from lived experience, Dewey warned against separating morality from relationships…” “…moral life is a process of creating...
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Gregory Pappas – Dewey’s Ethics – Democracy as Experience [Part II]
“Criticism and reflection, the examined life, are important constituents of moral life because they are capable of enriching its immediate quality and not because they lead us to the Truth or to...
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Gregory Pappas – Dewey’s Ethics – Democracy as Experience [Part III]
“The foundations of democratic respect are, for Dewey, a certain way of experiencing everything, not an exclusive and abstract regard for human rights or justice that is independent of nature. For the...
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Gregory Pappas – Dewey’s Ethics – Democracy as Experience [Part IV]
“Dewey used philosophy to make his hope reasonable, which is different than seeking a foundation or a rationalization for a way of life.” “A philosophy of democracy is an imaginative effort to...
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Gregory Pappas – Dewey’s Ethics – Democracy as Experience [Part V]
“Having faith is a type of commitment, an insistence on a possibility, and a tendency to act upon it, fully aware of the risk involved in a particular context. Faith is necessary and important in all...
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Gregory Pappas – Dewey’s Ethics – Democracy as Experience [Part VI – final]
“Morality is a social, creative, imaginative, emotional, hypothetical, and experimental process to ameliorate present situations.” “What should be dethroned are not moral generalizations per se, but a...
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Against (only) epistemological art – Sue Bell Yank’s The Constructivist Artwork
“We must shift from a vision of intelligence, as a basically neutral cognitive ability, to a holistic vision of intelligence as an ability that nurtures the human spirit and enables a person’s full...
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against art historical noodling or why social poiesis is more interesting...
I often quote IC-98 on this matter: “…as a reaction to the restrictions of academic writing…In practice, the world of contemporary art has proved to be the most flexible environment for diverse...
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[mise en scène] Multiple lines of inquiry – to enact a series of expansions from art to aesthetics and thus art education to aesthetic education. This would then entail using a synthesis of John...
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